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

  • William Tebb
Date:
1893
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    OTHER MEDICAL AUTHORITIES. 10/ Brigade-Surgeon H. V. Carter, of Bombay, referring to the spread of leprosy, says : The direct com- municability of leprosy is at least a good working hypothesis. Surgeon-Major Pinkerton, in his evidence before the Royal Commission on Vaccination, testified that leprosy was increasing in the cities of India, and believed that it was inoculable.—Second R.C. Report,p. 6. In a letter to the Times, June 12, 1889, Surgeon- Major Bring]e, late of the Sanitary Department, Her Majesty's Army, Bengal, refers to the danger of spreading leprosy by both inoculation and vaccination. The fact is, the amount of the virus of leprosy with which Father Damien was unknowingly fatally inocu- lated might have been, and probably was, very minute. I am amply justified, from a careful study of small- pox inoculation and vaccination during the whole of my thirty years' Indian service, in stating that, unless prompt and stringent measures are taken in Bombay, leprous inoculation will become far more possible, and hence probable, than it may appear at present. Dr. Joq. Frank Periera, Medical Superintendent of the Leper Asylum, Bombay, India, in a communication to the Times of India, November 18, 1890, gives his opinion that the contracting of leprosy is mainly due to its inoculation by means of open sores from one person to another, and adds : In most, if not in nearly all the cases treated by me, their previous his- tories have, almost without exception, disclosed the fact of the disease being due chiefly to heredity and inoculation.
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