The successful treatment of leprosy by P.G. Unna / with notes by J.L. Milton.

  • Milton, J. L. (John Laws), 1820-1898
Date:
1890
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Credit: The successful treatment of leprosy by P.G. Unna / with notes by J.L. Milton. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    them from starving ; so that unless they were very close packed, a barrack more than five times as big as Hyde Park would be needed to hold them all. If then the treatment adopted by Unna should prove as successful in the hands of others as it did in his own, the employment of it may relieve an enormous amount of misery and save us an enormous amount of expense. Sir Somers Vine tells us that the leprosy fund now amounts to about seven thousand pounds ; but twice seven hundred thousand would barely meet the cost of effectual segre- 'gation thoughout the dependencies of England. As to the stamping out of leprosy, so encouragingly spoken of by Mr. Hutchinson and Sir Andrew Clark, it may suffice to say that, until the skill of man avails to check the effects of soil and climate, the genesis of leprosy is not likely to die out in most of the lands infested by this disease, seeing that cases enough spring up afresh every year in these places, which cannot in common reason be ascribed to contagion. 12, Suffolk Street, Pall Mall. 1890. HARRISON AND SONS, PRINTERS IN ORDINARY TO HER MAJESTY, ST. MARTIN's LANB.
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