. A text-book upon the pathogenic Bacteria and Protozoa for students of medicine and physicians. Bacteriology; Pathogenic bacteria; Protozoa. 748 Leprosy- 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 been proved that leprosy is transmissible, and it may be regarded as an essential sanitary precaution that lepers should be segregated and mingle as little as
. A text-book upon the pathogenic Bacteria and Protozoa for students of medicine and physicians. Bacteriology; Pathogenic bacteria; Protozoa. 748 Leprosy- 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 been proved that leprosy is transmissible, and it may be regarded as an essential sanitary precaution that lepers should be segregated and mingle as little as possible with healthy persons. The disease is not hereditary, so that there is no reason why lepers should not marry among themselves. The children should, however, be taken from the parents lest they be subsequently Fig. 292.—A .case of lepra nodosa treated in the Medico-Chirurgical Hospital of Philadelphia. Rat Leprosy ' In 1903 Stefansky* reported the occurrence of a disease of rats that bore a striking resemblance to lepra of man, and was caused by a very similar acid-fast bacillus. Many others have since confirmed his observations. The disease ap- pears to be wide-spread among rats, its distribution seeming to bear no reference to the presence or absence of human leprosy, so that no connection between the epidemiology^ of the two can be traced. That the two depend upon similar micro-organisms is not only shown by the morphological and tinctorial resem- blances between the two, but also by the fact that the serum of each will give complement fixation reactions with the organisms from the other. *Centralbl. f. Bakt. u. Parasitenk, 1903, Orig., xxxm, p. 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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