. A practical treatise on diseases of the skin, for the use of students and practitioners. , in the province of New Bruns-wick. With this wide geographical distribution, the disease exists endem-ically in certain countries, and also in certain regions of the samecountry, with greater frequency than in others. All attempts, how-ever, to connect its origiu with malaria, with a residence near inun-dated sea-marshes, with the ingestion of a diet consisting largely offish, or of a diet from which salt has largely been excluded, havefailed of any recognized success. The disease, however, seems tospr
. A practical treatise on diseases of the skin, for the use of students and practitioners. , in the province of New Bruns-wick. With this wide geographical distribution, the disease exists endem-ically in certain countries, and also in certain regions of the samecountry, with greater frequency than in others. All attempts, how-ever, to connect its origiu with malaria, with a residence near inun-dated sea-marshes, with the ingestion of a diet consisting largely offish, or of a diet from which salt has largely been excluded, havefailed of any recognized success. The disease, however, seems tospread more rapidly in damp and cold, or warm and moist climatesthan it does in temperate countries. It is true that probably thelarger number of all living lepers are those who have been poorlyfed and otherwise subjected to the most insalubrious of influences, butthe disease also attacks, though far more rarely, persons whose socialposition and hygienic surroundings are of the best. It occurs in bothsexes—though more frequently in males—and at all ages; and, despite Fig. 84. Fig. Larynges of lepers affected with lepra tuberculosa (Elsbergs cases.
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