An analysis of 118 cases of leprosy in the Tarntaran Asylum (Punjab), and On the arrest and cure of leprosy by the external and internal use of the gurjun and chaulmoogra oils / by J.C. Phillippo ; communicated to the Epidemiological Society of London, January 8, 1890, by Phineas S. Abraham.

  • Abraham, P. S. (Phineas Simon), 1847-1921.
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1890
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Credit: An analysis of 118 cases of leprosy in the Tarntaran Asylum (Punjab), and On the arrest and cure of leprosy by the external and internal use of the gurjun and chaulmoogra oils / by J.C. Phillippo ; communicated to the Epidemiological Society of London, January 8, 1890, by Phineas S. Abraham. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ANALYSIS OF ll8\CASES_0|>l.EPPtOSY IN THE TAENTAEAN^^i§SL5jartPUNJAB). Reported by Gulam Mustafa, Assistant Suegeon. By PHINEAS S. ABRAHAM, M.A., M.D., B.Sc, F.E.C.S.I. (Read : January Sth, 1890 ) In the discussion on my paper on Leprosy, read before tliis Society in May 1889, it will be remembered that the Eev. E. Guilford, who had lately returned from India, made some interesting remarks upon the disease as he had seen it among the patients at the Tarntaran Leper Asylum (Punjab), of which he had been superintendent for some time. That gentleman then promised to obtain, for the information of the Society, further particulars and histories of the cases. This he has done, and a volume of MS. notes which he wrote for, has been handed to me, through the kindness of our member, Brigade-Surgeon Scriven, M.D. The notes have been compiled by Mr. Gulam Mustafa, and although incomplete in some respects, they appear to me to be of very great interest, and quite worthy of the con- sideration of the members of the Society. They consist of short histories of some 120 adult cases, now, or recently, inmates of the asylum; and, on the whole, they illustrate several points of etiological significance. The language may sometimes appear a little quaint—at any rate, to an un- imaginative European mind ; but, with the exception of a few obvious inaccuracies, particularly in reference to dates, the accounts bear evidence of considerable care and know- ledge of the subject on the part of the compiler. I have tabulated the cases, giving particulars as to sex, age, variety of the disease, its duration, number of relations affected, number of progeny, evidence as to a fish diet, the first symptoms observed, and some other details. Two of the cases (Nos. 77 and 81) are evidently purely syphilitic, although one, it is stated, thinks himself a leper; two are incipient (Nos. 83 and 84); and a third (No. 38) is said by the doctor to have no symptoms of leprosy on her body, though she pretends to say that she has got the disease.