Unpublished manuscript, 'An account of the desquamation and change of color in a negro [sic] of Upper Guinea, West Africa' by Thomas Staughton Savage Savage shares the case study of Tah-too Duari, a man identified as being of the Grebo [Glebo] people of Cape Palmas [Liberia]. Savage describes how a fever left the man with desquamation of the cuticle and changes to his complexion including a lightening of the skin in areas. Followed by a portrait in coloured ink of Tah-too Duari which shows details of his complexion. Subject: Medicine / Dermatology Received 7 March 1846 / 12 March 1846. Communicated by Richard Owen. An abstract of the paper was published in volume 5 of Abstracts of the Papers Printed in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London [later Proceedings of the Royal Society] as 'An account of the desquamation and change of colour in a negro [sic] of Upper Guinea, West Africa'. 1846