Leprosy in Ceylon

Some descriptions of leprosy in the ancient medical literature of Ceylon.

en facsimile avec transcriptions literales, traductions etc. par Ravaisson-Mollien, Paris, 1881-1891. C.A. II Codice Atlantico nella Biblioteca Ambrosiana di Milano riprodotto e pubblicato dalla Regia Accademia dei Lyncei sotto gli auspici e col sussidio del Governo. Trascrizione di Giovanni Piumati, Rome, 1894-1904. Tr. Il Codice de Leonardo da Vinci nella biblioteca del Principe Trevulzio in ...

Some historical aspects of leprosy in Ceylon during the Dutch period 1658-1796.

IN 1594 nine North Netherland merchants formed a 'Company of Far Lands' for the express purpose of establishing Dutch trade in the East. Two pioneer expeditions in 1597 and 1598 proved to be financially so successful that in spite of disastrous losses ofmen and ships by today's standards, numerous commercial companies mushroomed in Amsterdam to exploit the riches of trade in the Far East. Howev...

Prehistoric Archreology in Ceylon

Pterygium in Ceylon.

The geographical situation of Ceylon led Cameron (I965) to suggest that the pterygium rate there would range from 5-5 to over io per cent., but the actual incidence appears to be much less for reasons which are discussed below. The incidence of pterygium has not been closely studied, first perhaps because it rarely causes blindness, secondly because the world's earliest eye hospitals were situa...

Childhood in Ceylon

Lead poisoning in childhood has been reported mainly from Japan, France, the United States, Great Britain, and Australia. Attention is drawn in this paper to the incidence of lead intoxication in childhood in Ceylon, seen and diagnosed within the past three years. Whereas in past reports the principal mode of lead intoxication in childhood has been from ingestion, in the present series inhalati...