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conjunctival, nasal, and aural mucosa were all involved. The skin felt
warm, and pressure did not influence the discoloration. The pains
complained of were of an intermittent, burning, shooting character,
chiefly in the epigastric and left lumbar regions. The general health
was good, and motion and sensation were normal. Nothing abnormal was
discovered in connection with the abdominal and thoracic examinations.
The pains and discoloration had commenced two years before his
admission, since which time the skin had been deepening in tint. He
remained under observation for three months without obvious change in
his symptoms. There was nothing in the patient's occupation to account
for the discoloration. A year and a half previously he had taken
medicine for his pains, but its nature could not be discovered. He had
had syphilis.

Galtier mentions congenital and bronze spots of the skin. A man born in
Switzerland the latter part of the last century, calling himself Joseph
Galart, attracted the attention of the curious by exhibiting himself
under the name of the "Living Angel." He presented the following
appearance: The skin of the whole posterior part of the trunk, from the
nape of the neck to the loins, was of a bronze color. This color
extended over the shoulders and the sides of the neck, and this part
was covered with hairs of great fineness and growing very thick; the
skin of the rest of the body was of the usual whiteness. Those parts
were the darkest which were the most covered with hair; on the back
there was a space of an inch in diameter, which had preserved its
whiteness, and where the hairs were fewer in number, darker at their
bases, and surrounded by a very small black circle; the hair was
thinner at the sides of the neck; there were a great many individual
hairs surrounded by circles of coloring matter; but there were also
many which presented nothing of this colored areola. In some places the
general dark color of the skin blended with the areola surrounding the
roots of the hair, so that one uniform black surface resulted. In many
places the dark color changed into black. The irides were brown. The
man was of very unstable character, extremely undecided in all his
undertakings, and had a lively but silly expression of countenance. A
distinct smell, as of mice, with a mixture of a garlicky odor, was
emitted from those parts where the excessive secretion of the coloring
matter took place. In those places th