Health. Address delivered to the Social Science Congress at Plymouth / by Henry W. Acland.

  • Acland, Henry W. (Henry Wentworth), 1815-1900.
Date:
1873
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Credit: Health. Address delivered to the Social Science Congress at Plymouth / by Henry W. Acland. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    if possible, to ascertain the causes of leprosy ; and then, secondly, to devise the best means of preventing and eradicating the disease. The study of this disease does not end here; our own Government has not been altogether idle. Some years ago, Governor Walker wrote to the late Duke of Newcastle, informing him that leprosy was on the increase in the West India Islands. The Duke sent to the English College of Phy- sicians a request that they would investigate the matter, so far as our colonies were concerned. The college in due time placed in the hands of the Minister of the day, a report from 250 persons living in different parts of the globe, ac- companied by an elaborate commentary of their own, in which they set forth the supposed causes as well as the real character of the dis- ease. They also referred to the labours of Dr. Danielson, in Norway, which I have just men- tioned. The whole of this mass of informa- tion and research presented what I must call a monument of sagacious investigation. It is just such monuments, small as well as great, that we want, in order to shew what, by united means of research and inquiry, can be done on all points, not for ourselves only, but for the whole human race. In the face of such labours, it is surpris- ing to come across sensational articles complain-
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