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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    wholesome diet, and particularly hy the use of putrid fish. The natives of Malabar attribute leprous affections to the humidity of the coast climate, and a fish diet; and in Sumatra, Java, and elsewhere in the Eastern Indies, where tubercular leprosy exists, the disease is attri- buted to similar causes. The Hindoo physicians hold that leprosy may be induced in the following manner:— 1. By drinking milk, after eating glutinous fish to excess. 2. By eating food which is of a windy nature. 3. By eating, when urged to it by great hunger, victuals of a disagreeable taste or odour. 4. By worms in the body. 5. By checking vomiting, and so retaining in the body what ought to have been ejected. 6. By habitual costiveness, by which means morbid humours are pent up. 7. By the formation of a morbid gastric (hypochondriacal) humour and vitiated bile. 8. By a viscid, acrid humour in the blood. Certain varieties of the disease arc also thought to be produced by the bite3 of sundry