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They were intractable and would not depart.
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Next, the skin broke out with encrusted pustules.
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They soon grew, little by little,
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until they were the size of an acorn; which they in fact resembled.
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Then these ulcerated pustules ate away the skin
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and sometimes infected not only the fleshy parts,
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but the very bones as well.
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In cases where the malady was firmly established,
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in the upper parts of the body,
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the patient suffered from pernicious catarrh that eroded the palate,
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or the pharynx and tonsils.
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In some cases the lips, the nose and eyes were eaten away,