A BLACK MAN CHANGES HIS COLOR.
Adelaide, November 19. A rare instanceof the phenomenon [known to medical men as "leucodering " is at present under notice at the hospital. Tho skin of a native of the Mauritius Islands lias changed by aliatural process from the deepest brown to a colour lighter than that r of a European. So_ far ouly one other authentic case is known to tho profession. Tho process has occupied fjvo years, the first appearance of the change being a small white spot on the man's forehead.
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XVI, Issue 5186, 20 November 1895, Page 2
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89A BLACK MAN CHANGES HIS COLOR. Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XVI, Issue 5186, 20 November 1895, Page 2
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