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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    a natural as well as a symptomatological bond. The parallel which wc have already indicated to exist between the affections which cha- racterised the famine period that prevailed in Ireland, and which culminated in 1847, is com- pleted, when we learn, that the deaths returned as occurring from lepra and other chronic skin diseases in that country amounted to seven- teen in the decennium 1844, but to 450 in the decennium ending 1851. If, then, we have read aright the history of acute and chronic skin afiections, and it be such as we have attempted briefly to portray in the foregoing sections, one great practical conclusion, we think, arises out of that history; to wit, that the measures necessary for the prevention of both forms of affections are one and the same. Thus, those great sanitary mea- sures, by which we are now seeking either to ward off or to moderate the ravages of eruptive fevers and other deadly disorders, are those also to which it is requisite to have re- course, if we would seek to diminish the pre- valence, or mitigate the intensity, of chronic skin diseases. Hence, the general preventive