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

  • William Tebb
Date:
1893
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    LEPROSY COMMUNICABLE BY INOCULATION. IO9 or the blood of a leper to be inoculated into the system, as in vaccination.—Report on Leprosy to the Hon. H. Beverley, M.A., by JMadJinb Chimder Ghose, Leper Asylum, Calcutta^ Atignst zytli, i88g. Surgeon C. N. ]\Iacnamara sums up the question of the ccmmunicability of leprosy as follows :— The argu- ments, therefore, against the communicability of leprosy do not refute those in favour of it; consequently, I can arrive at no other conclusion than that leprosy is com- municable; but it is necessary for the propagation of the disease by this means that the discharge from a leprous sore should enter the tissues of a health)^ person, and, further, the disease may even then (unless under peculiar circumstances) remain undeveloped in the system for years.—Leprosy a Comviunicable Disease, p. ^j. SOUTH AFRICA. In Appendix A to the ''Cape of Good Hope Report of the Select Committee on the Spread of Leprosy, 1883, is an interesting communication from the Rev. Canon James Baker, dated Kalk Bay Rectory, August 10, 1883, as follows :— My own opportunities for investigation have been rather exceptional, and my advantages con- siderable. In early life I was a student of Medicine, and subsequently of Chemistry and Natural Philosoph}', at University College, London. My appointment as chap- lain to the Lunatic i\sylum and General Infirmar}- on Robben Island, where I remained nine years, put me in the way of getting experience among lepers, and I commenced at once and continued to make the nature of this terrible disease a special subject of inquiry. In m}-
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