. A practical treatise on diseases of the skin, for the use of students and practitioners. Larynges of lepers affected with lepra tuberculosa (Elsbergs all efforts to show the contrary, bears no relation to syphilis. Lepers,however, become syphilitic if infected with that disease, precisely asthey may and do acquire variola, varicella, morbilli, erysipelas, andphthisis. The Hebrew Scriptures are often interpreted as showingthat the disease among the Jews in Palestine was regarded by them ascontagious and so treated. The modern student of these writingswill, however, be convinced that t
. A practical treatise on diseases of the skin, for the use of students and practitioners. Larynges of lepers affected with lepra tuberculosa (Elsbergs all efforts to show the contrary, bears no relation to syphilis. Lepers,however, become syphilitic if infected with that disease, precisely asthey may and do acquire variola, varicella, morbilli, erysipelas, andphthisis. The Hebrew Scriptures are often interpreted as showingthat the disease among the Jews in Palestine was regarded by them ascontagious and so treated. The modern student of these writingswill, however, be convinced that this interpretation is erroneous. Theleprosy of the book of Leviticus not only includes lepra, as that termis understood to-day, but also psoriasis, scabies, and other cutaneousaffections. The leper, in the eye of the Mosaic law, was ceremonially 1 Arch, of Med., December, Ibid., March, 1878. 2 N. O. Med. and Surg. Journ., April, Trans. Louis. State Med. Assoc, 1879.
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