Show LEPROSY SAID TO TOBE TOBE BE HEREDITARY Consul at Maracaibo Vene Venezuela Venezuela zuela zue a Makes Report on the Dread Disease MALADY NOT CONTAGIOUS MAY BE CURED CU RED IF lF PROPER FOOD IS SUPPLIED ED Washington Sept 12 After displaying rare heroism by the devotion of ot a life lifetime lifetime time Ume to a study of leprosy Eugene II H American consul at Maracaibo M racal bo boo Venezuela has decided that the time dread malady is not contagious but Is hered hereditary hereditary to a degree not reached In any other disease He has made an exhaustive re report report report port to the state department telling tolling of his personal attendance atten ance upon lepers af afflicted afflict d in the most revolting form His report indicates that leprosy Is curable but that there Is little hope in Venezuela or other colonies where here nutritious foods and expensive drugs I rarely are provided Conferred With Scientists Dr was appointed to Mara rara Maracaibo Maracaibo calbo in 1878 where in Jointure with his duties as consul he has constantly ob observed observed observed served leper oases and their treatment and where he experimented in no small way In this he has had the benefit of oC correspondence with tho the most advanced scientists of ot the United States and Europe and it was through his efforts that the tua tua plant used In treating the dis disease disease disease ease is now planted in all countries s which hove have leper stations At the th request of or these scientists Dr took many photographs of ot lepers personally removing the bandages of the afflicted that the best results might be attained He was allowed to visit secretly many lepers lopers l pers In Maracaibo concealed by their families to avoid their being sent in per perpetual perpetual banishment to the Island Obtained Good Results Tsing a secret medicine which he ob obtained obtained through Dr S C Bothwell ll now marshal of the supreme court of Porto PortoRico PortoRico Rico he experimented with it on these private cases Ten lepers were given into hh hir special charge These cases embraced both classes of ot the disease the dry class where become so that fingers and toes may be broken off oft without pain to the patient and the other class known as wet or soft leprosy where every part becomes and rots away awn leaving at last nothing but a trunk of or a human being His reports point out that the treatment produced many good results but that the lack of proper food made absolute cure impossible Horrifying Experience Dr In his report sa says s that as he was vms successful and full of hope for continued good results he concluded he would rather drop the society of his friends of the foreign colony than to abandon the lepers Though he observed Ived minute care to avoid any danger an r from contagion he suffered a most horrifying experience In attending one of or his pa patients patients patients a boy at the leprosy lepro institution and a few rew days clays after aft r the incident small sores appeared on his hands but after some months these dried up although dis discolored discolored discolored colored red marks remained From his observations of the ten cases the consul concluded that without plenty plent of nutritious food toad to build up the system o 0 the tIme afflicted there will never be good results from the treatment nt of the loners leners at Maracaibo The poor creatures cr atu s there are ar fed mostly on cheap fish there thore be being beIng beIng ing no means to procure better food Call of Former President A former president of the state in which Maracaibo Is situated who left the coun coon country country try after his administration but hut after many years ears came back to his country rca res residence I I a leper sent for Dr who undertook the treatment aided by bythe bythe bythe I the patients handsome young wife who attended him faithfully As the patient I was able to buy the most nutritious food i his hig improvement was rapid and ultimate recovery appeared certain But when time the I consul went to see his patient the next time the wife was In tears and the pa patient patient tient a broken down man The patient i had hasI been Informed that inside of two twos days das s he was to be removed to the leper Island laud 1 During his presidency he had made many enemies and after his return to Venezuela these enemies were In pow power er While he was known us itS an Incurable kpor r they had let him alone but as Soon soon as an it Jt was reported that he lie would be well again these enemies purposed to destroy and humiliate him by sending him Into everlasting banishment Committed Suicide When Dr offered to inter intel intercede intercede cede and amid explain to the authorities that there was hope for his absolute ab cure the patient shook his head and said No My enemies know I am better and I and now they send scud me to tJ the e Island three miles from the city to be banished for my life Ufe seeing daily dally before me mp the beautiful city which I embel hearing the bells ring from the churches I helped to adorn hearing bands playing on the plaza seeing the city lighted in the evening and even en my m own dear d ar house and yet to be he bean bean hean an outcast forever No consul my m ene em enemies en mica mies shall not triumph over oyer me They shall not dispose of their former dent I shall do so myself Two days later the thet people of ot the slate of Zulia heard that former dent had suddenly denly died lied 1 know the tho cause of o 0 his death says the tho consul and I am gluT glad lie he JC cheated his enemies Not Contagious Dr Pt concludes his report by b saying What leprosy Is we do not yet et know but our people at home should be en enlightened enlightened enlightened lightened through the press that it Is cruel to shun and abandon a poor suffer suffering suf r ring ing lag human creature because lie le Is a 11 r Laz Las Lazarus arus atus at us Smallpox is much more contagious I II I will cheerfully attend to any class of leprosy but smallpox makes me shudder I I would If Jt allowed make the tue selection of storming a battery rather than go to ex cx examine examine amine a smallpox patient The report gives statistics showing the alarming number of lepers In the republics republics lies of oC Colombia and Venezuela |