Chappa

The name among the Popo people in the colony Lagos for a disease believed to be neither tuberculosis nor syphilitic, marked by severe initial pains in muscles and joints, followed by swelling and formation of round multiple nodules the size of a pigeon's egg; without forming abscesses these are exposed by ulceration of the skin The disease finally attacks the bones

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