Leprosy

Hospital clinics are being established to enable the early unin fective cases to be treated as out-patients without the cost and disadvantages of separation from friends and relatives, and only sufficient funds and organization are required to reduce this loath some disease to negligible proportions in many parts of the world within a few decades.

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history and geographical distribution, see Hirsch, Handbuch der historisch-geographischen Pathologie (1st ed., Erlangen, with exhaustive literature, 186o) . For pathology, Virchow, Die krankhaften Geschwiilste, vol. ii. (Berlin, 1863-67). For clinical histories, R. Liveing, Elephantiasis Graecorum or True Leprosy, ch. iv. (London, 1873). For mediaeval leprosy—in Germany, Virchow, in Virchow's Archie., five articles, vols. xviii.–xx. (186o-61) ; in the Netherlands, Israels, in Nederl. Tijdschr. voor Geneeskunde, vol. i. (1857) ; in Britain, J. Y. Simpson, Edin. Med. and Surg. Journ., three articles, vols. lxvi. and lxvii. (1846-47) . Treatises on modern leprosy in particular localities: Danielssen and Boeck (Norway), Traite de la Spidalskhed, with atlas of 24 coloured plates (Paris, 1848) ; A. F.

Anderson, Leprosy as met with in the Straits Settlements, coloured photographs with explanatory notes (London, 5872) ; H. Vandyke Carter (Bombay), On Leprosy and Elephantiasis, with coloured plates (London, 1874) ; Hillis, Leprosy in British Guiana, an account of West Indian leprosy, with 22 coloured plates (London, 1882) ; F. Oldrieve, India's Lepers (1924). See also the dermatological works of Hebra, Erasmus Wilson, Bazin and Jonathan Hutchinson (also the latter's letters to The Times of April II and May 25, 5903) ; British Medical Journal (April 1, 1908) ; American Journal of Dermatology (Dec. 19o7) ; The Practitioner (Feb. 191o). An important early work is that of P. G. Hensler, Vom abendldndischen Aussatze im Mittelalter (Hamburg, I790). See also G. W. McCoy, Leprosy, and Tice's Practice of Medicine, 1925, vol. iv., p. 73. (L. R.)