Case of Framboesia Guineaensis, or yaws of the African negroes; with some attempt to fix the exact character of that morbid poison / by Joseph Adams.

  • Adams, Joseph, 1756-1818.
Date:
1803
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Credit: Case of Framboesia Guineaensis, or yaws of the African negroes; with some attempt to fix the exact character of that morbid poison / by Joseph Adams. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    the fkin, and the matter had encrufted the » hair, fo as to turn it white, the difeafe was confidered as beyond a doubt, and the fubjecT: pronounced unclean. But if no lofs of Tub- ftance appeared, and the fpot was not lower than the found part, nor the hair altered, the fubject was to be (hut up for a week, at the end of which, if the difeafe was ftationary, feven days more were required. If the difeafe now became a dry fcab, of a darker com- plexion, without having fpread, it was to be confidered a common fcab, and the fubjecl: readmitted into the camp. But if the fcab had increafed between the nrft and fecond examination, the fubjecl: was to be again fe- cluded for a future examination, and if it then, appeared that the fcab continued to fpread, he was to be pronounced unclean, Irt the next ftage, the excrefcences being all white, and the hair alio, the prieft was diredted to look for the red fungus under- neath, and, if he found quick raw flefli in the rifing, he was to confider the difeafe an old [or confirmed] leprofy, and exclude the patient accordingly. Laftly, he was to determine when the pa- tient might be confidered as no longer infec- b 2 tious,