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Ch. 5: Ceara, Pernambuco to Crato

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PERNAMBUCO TO CRATO.
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in its chronic state, consulted me, and I gained no little reputa­tion from having either cured or much alleviated the symptoms in most of the cases that presented themselves, even when the com­plaint had been of long standing; blindness is a very common result, and nowhere have I seen a greater number of blind people than in this district. Secondary syphilitic complaints are also very common, and many are the miserable wretches which they have here produced; in such cases, mercury is very seldom employed for the primary symptoms, these being generally cured by a species of Croton, commonly known by the name of Velame; it is used both externally and internally with some effect, but under this treatment sooner or later the secondary symptoms make their appearance, under some one or other of their protean forms. A residence of but a short time in the interior of Brazil, would soon convince those medical men who would cure these complaints without mercury, of the danger of such treatment.
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