Skin diseases and their remedies / by Robert J. Jordan.

  • Jordan, Henry J.
Date:
1860
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Skin diseases and their remedies / by Robert J. Jordan. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    The gradual extinction or extreme infre- quency of tubercular leprosy, and the greater rarity of the severer forms of chronic skin affections, in several countries of Europe, con- temporaneously with an advancing husbandry, a more highly cultivated condition of the soil, and an improved condition of the people in every respect, is well worthy of note. In France and Great Britain no cases of tubercular leprosy appear to have been recorded since the terminal quarter of the last century. In 1775, the Leper Hospital at Waterford, in Ireland, contained one leper. “ If,” write the authors of the Irish Census Report on the Tables of Deaths, “ we might speculate respecting one, at least, of the causes which have assisted to pre- serve from leprosy, scurvy, and other kindred diseases, a people not particularly remarkable for cleanliness, and not possessing the social and domestic comforts of others in an equal state of advancement, we would attribute it to the daily use of fresh vegetable food, such as the potato may be said to be, even at the most advanced period of the season.’ 1 It is also well worthy of note, that the de-