. A text-book upon the pathogenic Bacteria and Protozoa for students of medicine and physicians. Bacteriology; Pathogenic bacteria; Protozoa. 704 Leprosy the skin. Ultimately it sometimes invades the lymphatics and ex- tends to the internal viscera. Death ultimately occurs from ex- haustion, if not from the frequent intercurrent affections, especially pneumonia and tuberculosis, to which the patients seem predisposed. Specific Therapy.—Carrasquilla's* "leprosy serum" was prepared by injecting the serum separated from blood withdrawn from lepers, into horses, mules, and asses, and, af
. A text-book upon the pathogenic Bacteria and Protozoa for students of medicine and physicians. Bacteriology; Pathogenic bacteria; Protozoa. 704 Leprosy the skin. Ultimately it sometimes invades the lymphatics and ex- tends to the internal viscera. Death ultimately occurs from ex- haustion, if not from the frequent intercurrent affections, especially pneumonia and tuberculosis, to which the patients seem predisposed. Specific Therapy.—Carrasquilla's* "leprosy serum" was prepared by injecting the serum separated from blood withdrawn from lepers, into horses, mules, and asses, and, after a number of in- jections, bleeding the animals and separating the serum. There is no reason for thinking that such a product could have therapeutic value. In practice it proved worthless. Rostf prepared massive cultures of the lepra bacillus, filtered. Fig. 285.—A case of lepra nodosa treated in the Medico-Chirurgical Hospital of Philadelphia. them through porcelain, concentrated the filtrate to one-tenth of its volume, and mixed the filtrate with an equal volume of glycerin. The resulting preparation was called leprolin and was supposed to be analogous to tuberculin. With it he treated a number of lepers at the Leper Hospital at Rangoon, Burmah, many of whom greatly improved and some of whom seemed to be cured. Confirmation of the work by others is greatly desired. Sanitation.^—-While not so contagious as tuberculosis, it has * "Wiener med. Wochenschrift," No. 41, 1897. t "Brit. Med. Jour.," Feb. 11, Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original McFarland, Joseph, 1868-. Philadelphia and London, W. B. Saunders Company
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