Category: Science - Biology
The Bacillus Lepræ has now been recognised in all leprous products, and although the fact has not yet been experimentally demonstrated, we may practically say with confidence that Leprosy is a chronic disease caused by the Lepra bacillus.
The Bacillus Lepræ has now been recognised in all leprous products, and although the fact has not yet been experimentally demonstrated, we may practically say with confidence th...
2. CHAPTER II.The leprous nodes or nodular Lepromata are of different size and colour; their consistence is at first firm and hard; they are but slightly compressible, and show little elastic...
3. CHAPTER III.The leprous nodes have on section a smooth, white, glistening surface, if they are still sufficiently young. If one examines, microscopically, sections or teased preparations of...
4. CHAPTER IV.This form of leprosy was first distinctly and well described by Danielssen, who called it _L. anæsthetica_; but since the macules, as Danielssen recognised, play an important an...
5. CHAPTER V.The maculæ exhibit generally the same anatomical characters as do the nodular lepromata, viz., infiltrations with round cells, epithelioid and spindle cells. The difference betw...
6. CHAPTER VI.DIAGNOSIS.--In view of the description which we have given of the two forms of the disease, the diagnosis is usually accompanied by little difficulty. We have, however, noted ab...
7. CHAPTER VII.There is hardly anything on earth, or between it and heaven, which has not been regarded as the cause of Leprosy; and this is but natural since the less one knows, the more acti...
8. CHAPTER VIII.Since many cases of Leprosy terminate in cure by the disintegration and elimination of the bacilli, one might imagine that it would be a tolerably easy task to find a suitable t...