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THERE will be found in Grattan Geary's “Through Asiatic Turkey” all about the date-mark—a mysterious and troublesome excoriation, coming only once, but which lasts a year, leaving an ugly scar the size and outline of the fruit—visitors for any length of time at Bagdad seldom, and residents never, escape. It is also known at Aleppo and other places, but is worst in Bagdad, almost every native being marked. Even nitric acid has been found to have little effect upon it. I lately spent forty-four days, off and on, at Bagdad, and imagined I had escaped; not so, however, as it proved six weeks after my return to India. But the mark yielded forthwith, and before any damage was done, to hyposulphite of soda, which does so much “fixing” for every amateur photographer, and seemed worth trying. The fact may be usefully mentioned in the interest of Mesopotamian explorers who do not want to be date-marked as a memento; but it is to physiologists they must look for an explanation.
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FRASER, A. The Bagdad Date-mark. Nature 52, 31 (1895). https://doi.org/10.1038/052031a0
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