Four Cases of Yaws: With Remarks on the Importance of Recognising and Segregating Cases in India *A paper read at the July meeting of the Calcutta Medical Society.

they call it in Fiji. Having been in the West Indies for several years, I was able to recognise that these cases were in all essentials identical with yaws, the ravages of which disease in many of the islands of the West Indies are so notorious and far-reaching, that the public there spot it at once, in the same way as with us they usually recognise chicken-pox or measles. I have thought it well to show these cases to the Medical Society and to comment 011 them, not only because the disease is most interesting and rare, so rare that