A disorder consisting of areas of macular depigmentation, commonly on extensor aspects of extremities, on the face or neck, and in skin folds. Age of onset is often in young adulthood and the condition tends to progress gradually with lesions enlarging and extending until a quiescent state is reached.
    

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The cabinet of curiosities, or wonders of the world displayed. No.5, The Spotted Negro Boy.

On Wednesday morning last died, at the house of Mr. Richardson, Horsemonger-lane, Southwark, aged four year and nine months, George Alexander, the late celebrated and surprising spotted West Indian ...

Wonderful spotted boy : seventeen months old from the Caribbee islands, in the West Indies : to be seen at no.41, Strand, near Messrs. Couts & Co. bankers : he is the progeny of negroes, on whose body is a display of the works of God, being beautifully covered by a diversity of spots of the most beautiful black and transparent brown and white.

Turning white : a memoir of change / Lee Thomas.

Freak shows ephemera. Box 5.

Vitiligo : understanding the loss of skin colour / [Marion Lesage for the Vitiligo Society].

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The cabinet of curiosities, or wonders of the world displayed. No.5, The Spotted Negro Boy.

Turning white : a memoir of change / Lee Thomas.

Freak shows ephemera. Box 5.

Vitiligo : understanding the loss of skin colour / [Marion Lesage for the Vitiligo Society].