Leprosy in its clinical & pathological aspects / by G. Armauer Hansen and Carl Looft ; translated by Norman Walker.

  • Gerhard Armauer Hansen
Date:
1895
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Credit: Leprosy in its clinical & pathological aspects / by G. Armauer Hansen and Carl Looft ; translated by Norman Walker. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    with leprosy, in spite of the fact that the poison has evidently at some time circulated in the blood. The face is usually especially characteristic, as the eyebrows are almost always the seat of nodules. The nodules are sometimes isolated though close together, sometimes there are only one or two, though usually several, and some- times there are no distinct nodules, but the eyebrow is infiltrated both in length and breadth, and of a reddish colour. Even if the infiltration is not so great that the brow appears thickened, the reddish colour and the shadow over the eyes give to the face a characteristic expression, and one can feel the infiltration, if the brow is gripped between the thumb and forefinger. In these cases the hairs persist; in more severe infiltration, and where nodules are formed, they drop out. The forehead and cheeks usually present a diffuse or spotty redness and burnish, and with the finger one recognises the infiltration as an increased resistance. This discolouration is most evident on changes of temperature, as when a patient comes from the outside cold into a warm room. Not infrequently the suspicion of Leprosy is aroused by this change of colour, and by the shadows over the eyebrows, even years before more definite symptoms appear. But in most cases one finds distinct nodules in the eyebrows
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