| Show MUSts AM 111UUbV I The recent leprosy Congress and the discussions eutulng upon the divisIon divis-Ion of sentiment There regarding the symptoms and alleged contagious character char-acter cf the disease have brought up tho question aj to whether modern potentials know any mare about It than the ancients did It the dliousslon of the latter point the Bible has been called upon with the remit that leading medical practitioners who have been cxtorlrnentlnz Invest gat rig and arguing pro and con on the general Subject have aiottalned that more was known of diseases than they thought to be In the earlier age and certainly as much In 001110 respects as now In debating the matter In the I Medical Record Dr II It Porter inquires of the profession If 1 they over tend the I Bible and points them to I the thirteenth fourteenth and fifteenth charters of Lsvltloue remarking concerning con-cerning leprosy Rom nrstrato authotlloi do not consider con-sider thli a ojntKKlous disease but Ibo above vigorous riloasurm how pretty clear bow Alolooviewed It IhlrlyllTo 111iliad years o lIud ho had good authority to backeOlls > 1 ntatematits |
