Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Journal of Cutaneous Diseases Including Syphilis, Vol. 26: April, 1908 Director of the Clinic for Tropical Diseases, Colombo (ceylon). Read by title before the Sixth International Dermatological Congress, New York, September 9-14, 1907. T HE disease was first called framboesia by Sauvage in 1759. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.