The Recrudescence of leprosy and its causationS. Sonnenschein, 1893 - 412 pàgines |
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Pàgina 311 - A priest, robed with surplice and stole, went with the cross to the house of the doomed leper. The minister of the church began the necessary ceremonies, by exhorting him to suffer, with a patient and penitent spirit, the incurable plague with which God had stricken him. He then sprinkled the unfortunate leper with holy water, and afterwards conducted him to the church, the usual burial services being sung during their march thither. In the church, the ordinary habiliments of the leper were removed;...
Pàgina 374 - The real affinity of cow-pox is not to the small-pox, but to the great pox. The Vaccinal roseola is not only very like the syphilitic roseola, but it means the same sort of thing. The vaccinal ulcer of everyday practice is to all intents and purposes a chancre; it is apt to be an indurated sore when excavated under the scab; when the scab does not adhere it often shows an unmistakable tendency to phagedena.
Pàgina 361 - ... or more than they, in which the altered state is maintained; and in many cases it would seem that, whatever materials are added to the blood, the stamp once impressed by one of these specific diseases is retained.
Pàgina 311 - ... trestles, the libera was sung, and the mass for the dead celebrated over him. After this service he was again sprinkled with holy water, and led from the church to the house or hospital destined for his future abode. A pair of clappers, a barrel, a stick, cowl, and dress, &c., were given him.
Pàgina 340 - In order to overcome their prejudices, the late Mr. Ellis, of Madras, who was well versed in Sanscrit literature, actually composed a short poem in that language on the subject of vaccination. This poem was inscribed on old paper, and said to have been found, that the impression of its antiquity might assist the effect intended to be produced on the minds of the Brahmins while tracing the preventive to their sacred cow.
Pàgina 87 - The all but unanimous conviction of the most experienced observers in different parts of the world is quite opposed to the belief that leprosy is contagious, or communicable by proximity or contact with the diseased.
Pàgina 172 - WT, aged 25, of English parentage, but was born and passed his early life in British Guiana. After a vaccination performed when young, his arm became greatly swollen and inflamed, and large sloughs separated. Investigation revealed the fact that the vaccine virus had been taken from a negro whose mother was a leper.
Pàgina 361 - ... the blood constantly makes it afresh out of the materials that are added to it, let those materials be almost what they may. The tissues once affected may (and often do) in these cases recover ; they may have gained their right or perfect composition ; but the blood, by assimilation, still retains its taint, though it may have in it not one of the particles on which the taint first passed : and hence, after many years of seeming health, the disease may break out again from the blood, and affect...
Pàgina 299 - Though in a scientific classification of diseases leprosy must be regarded as contagious, and also inoculable, yet the extent to which it is propagated by these means is exceedingly small. (4) ' Leprosy is not directly originated by the use of any particular article of food, nor by any climatic or telluric conditions, nor by insanitary surroundings ; neither does it peculiarly affect any race or caste.
Pàgina 301 - Leprosy is indirectly influenced by insanitary surroundings, such as poverty, bad food, or deficient drainage or ventilation ; for these, by causing a predisposition, increase the susceptibility of the individual to the disease. 6. Leprosy in the great majority of cases originates de novo — that is, from a sequence or concurrence of causes and conditions dealt with in the report, and which are related to each other in ways at present imperfectly known.