| Show Leprosy an Exclusively Human Disuse The active causa o leprosy Is a spe cine mlcroorrunlsm the baclllu leprnc The period of Incubation varlc from 0 fpw mloo In oorn Mr Two principal i hy pezon forma of leprosy that nre recognized as tho brunt of the disease nre determined toward to-ward the skin or toward th peripheral nervous ayslim Tho first form Is termed tubercular the second anesthetic anes-thetic or nerve leprosy Jn the first form Infiltrations ocur In the skin forming nodules or tuberchs which are especially prominent nbout the forehead cheeks and carp later these I nodules break down forming ulcerat Ing Rro often thy ocenalon plturs of horr1bie dfrormftyOCTlie Tubercular form la I the most severe and ranldlv fatal Ihe average duration of life li I from five to ten years In 1keooen thetl lorlll the nutrition of the kln is I interfered with from Imptlcatlot of the nerdms Iallllg t 0 eonlrncUons nnd dC fornoilien of the membeis not Infre q000tly there Is marked mutllatlo from the sinking In of the nose Iho less of tri sight nnd the dropping off of the fingers nnl tee 00 that ollly the Iumpe of the bonds and fet re mole II 1115 forl Ih coura of lien oIlsouo I lemoner nn1 II may be pro Inged to ten or mten yars 10llgor Some Itents xhll1 Ihe charncterls tIes oC both form rlxool leprosy LproR Is nneacluclve iy humnn dlae I Is I not lcuble tn nlllmnls I I neVor of pQnanoou origin hut Is I Illvarhlhly leeRed from Ihe 1010110 Ocscerr lions of a prr00nhmllocly r IOrr t aJ I uiwfaseu Its oeveiopment in n country coun-try previously exempt from the disease I Oday 01000 ion traced to Its Importa 1011 III the Irnon 01 n leper I from an Infected cente 55 ° 0 hnow nothing definitely of the mole of Inlecton or 1k ech500r 10 01 lIlrnno through I C hlch the bnelllu gab 000ceess to Ihe rganlsm whetlu by dirert noolnmt br Inhalstlon or Imbibition of the germ or by other Intermediaries Ob errvo Ion prov oncluslvely that I every leper H I a possible of danger dan-ger to all with whom los may come Into InUmnte nnd prolled contnctFrom I ° Lcpmiy nnd Hawaiian Anneicstlon by Dr Prince A Morrow In North Amerlcnl i Ilevlew fardorember |
