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

  • Jordan, Henry J.
Date:
1860
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Credit: Skin diseases and their remedies / by Robert J. Jordan. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    clension in severity and frequency of the graver forms of chronic skin diseases in Europe, was contemporaneous with the great inter-pesti- lential interval between the last European out- break of plague, and the first appearance of epidemic cholera. But, of late, tubercular leprosy (spedalskhed), and other severe chronic affections of the skin, as, for example, radesyge, have become extensively prevalent in Norway and adjoining countries—a fact of unusual in- terest when taken in connexion with a recur- rence of true pestilential outbreaks of disease (cholera), and when compared with the mediaeval history of epidemics. The authors, therefore, of the “Report on Tables of Death” in the Irish Census for 1851,1 do not want justification for expressing the opinion, that it is quite possi- ble that tubercular leprosy may appear again in the British Isles; and, although the ap- proaches of the disease may be insidious, the effects may not be the less destructive. We think, therefore, from these considera- tions, that it is probable there is an important interlacement between the causation of chronic and acute cutaneous affections—that there is 1 Part v, vol. i, p. 426. 3