A few observations on the leprosy of the Middle Ages / by T. Shapter.

  • Shapter, Thomas, 1809 or 1810-1902.
Date:
1835
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Credit: A few observations on the leprosy of the Middle Ages / by T. Shapter. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    have I ever seen a case in which they were not afflicted.” To this I shall add one other account,—that of Dr. Kinnis, who saw seve- ral cases of it in the Isle of France ; Dr. Joy says that it is one of the most accurate de- scriptions of the disease we possess. “ The face was generally swollen, with large tubercles on the forehead, separated from each other by deep furrows; and smaller and more confluent ones on the cheeks, which oc- casionally hung down, so as to depress the angles of the mouth; the alae of the nose were dilated, distorted, and covered with tubercles ; the ears thickened, enlarged, and studed with similar substances, and the lips penetrated by hard whitish bodies, which looked somewhat like recent cicatrices. In mulattoes the tubercles were of a bright livid, or copper colour, and in blacks a shade deeper ■f than the surrounding skin. The cuticular lines and folds were every where more distinct and larger than natural. The deeply-wrinkled forehead, the bare swollen eye-brows, the heavy pendulous cheeks, the irregular expan-