Conditions Under Which Leprosy Has Declined in Iceland (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1895 edition. Excerpt: ...pains of gout, and the first protuberances (tubercles) as warts. No. 49. Man of 35, with L. tuberosa two years old. He served fifteen years ago together with a leprous patient. No. 52. Widow of 51, L. tuberosa three years old. A leprous man died two years ago after two years of illness at the same farm as the patient (most likely he lived in cohabitation with the patient), and he is by the patient considered to have infected her. She herself is a midwife, and until May, 1894, she still practised as one. She sulfers from far advanced leprosy with large scattered tubercles, covering also her hands and forearms. No. 67. Man of 67, L. anwsthetica eleven years old. Once he lodged a pauper for three years; the latter was snfering from L. tuberosa. He left him fourteen years ago. Three years after he was himself attached by the disease. No. 71. Man of 50, L. anaesthetica five years old. Twenty years ago he served at a farm where a leprous patient came on a visit. This patient was rambling about, and died at this farm in a bed opposite the patient. N0. 80. Man of 35, L. aneesthetica three years old. For two years he has been living under one roof with his sister-inlaw, No. 70, who was not known to be leprous, but now she has been ill for three years. No. 98. A fisher of 35, L. mixta two years old. Five CONDITIONS UNDER WHICH IT HAS DECLINED. 37 years ago he shared the room of a leprous patient and ate together with him for sin weeks. No. 99. Boy of 14, L. maculosa two years old. A sister s son of his father was leprous. When the boy was ten years old he slept for half a year with a woman (No. 86) of whom it was not known that she was ill, but two years after tuberous leprosy broke out with her. Finally I add an oral...