| View Larger Image | Elephantiasis græcorum, or, True leprosy | Paperbackby Robert Liveing (Author)
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| | Binding: | Paperback | | Publisher: | General Books LLC | | Page Count: | 102 Pages | | Publication Date: | August 15, 2009 |
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: 71 CHAPTER III. ETIOLOGY OF LEPROST. In discussing the Etiology of diseases, we usually divide the causes which produce them into two classes, primary and secondary. Thus, for example, in scurvy (a disease somewhat allied to leprosy), we know the primary cause to be a deficient supply of fresh food and vegetables; and the secondary, exposure to wet, cold, and other hardships. In the case of leprosy, however, we are quite ignorant of its primary source, and therefore, in dealing with the subject, I can only discuss its secondary and predisposing causes, of which the seven following are the chief:—(1) Climate, (2) Soil, (3) Eace, (4) Defective Hygiene, (5) Diet, (6) Hereditary tendency, (7) Contagion. These seven factors differ much in their relative importance. Some exercise but little influence in the propagation and perpetuation of the disease, while others are of great moment. First, as to Climate. It will be gathered from what I have said in the geographical sketch of leprosy, that I do not attach much value to climateas a cause of the malady. I have already proved that the disease exists in all latitudes, from the Poles to the Equator. Nevertheless, I believe that the importance of climate has been rather under than over estimated, especially by the modern German writers, who attempt to determine its effect by comparing one country or district with another, and they argue, that as the disease is equally common, say in Norway, South Africa, and the West Indies, therefore atmospheric influences are inoperative. I need hardly point out that there is a possible fallacy in this argument, inasmuch as by thus comparing one country with another, they really include several factors, namely, soil, race and food, any of which may exert an influence over the disease. To sep... |
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