The recrudescence of leprosy and its causation : a popular treatise.

  • William Tebb
Date:
1893
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Credit: The recrudescence of leprosy and its causation : a popular treatise. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    the lunatic patients in the process of washing. This practice was probably in vogue for upwards of thirty years, yet there is no alleged or recorded instance of any lunatic patient contracting leprosy on Robben Island. Dr. VV. H. Ross, Police Surgeon in Cape Town, was asked— O. 252. You are aware-that the bacilli have been in the saliva of lepers, would not that render the disease liable to be spread by the act of kissing ? — Not unless there was some cracked surface on the lips or mouth. I have never known of a case of leprosy having been contracted on the island, although they mix there freely. — Report of Select Com- mittee on tJie Spread of Leprosy^ Cape of Good Hope, filly, i88g. Mmutes of Evidence. ]\Ir. Davidson of ]\Iadagascar says: — Leprosy is contagious by inoculation only. Dr. W. V. M. Koch, the Acting Superintendent of the Leper Asylum, Trinidad, writing on the subject of contagion, explains that the entrance of the (leper) germ into the system will take place if it is brought into contact with an absorbing surface—any abrasion of skin or mucous membrane being sufficient for this purpose.— Surgeon General's Report for i8gi,p. Ji. Dr. Alexander Abercromby writes to me from Cape Town, April 20th, 1892, that after thirty years ex- perience he holds that leprosy is partly contagious, and explains that he does not use the word contagion in the strict sense, but when there is a discharge from a
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