Leprosy in India and Ceylon

Vegetable Materia Medica of India and Ceylon

Dermatologists and leprosy in India.

Leprosy has been treated by dermatologists for over half a century. Teachers in dermatology in all medical schools and colleges were MBBS with three months’ training in leprosy in the School of Tropical Medicine. Advanced leprosy cases with deformity were treated mostly at leprosaria but also in medical colleges. In the control programme in India, which was in operation from 1954, under SET cen...

Leprosy Relief in India

The 1921 census gives 102,513 as the number of lepers in India, but mentions that this is short of the real number, as only conspicuous sufferers from this disease were likely to be enumerated by the untrained people who gathered the statistics. Recently, an estimate was made by the sanitation staff of a certain town in India that there were only six lepers in a certain ward of the town. Immedi...

Leprosy Institutions in India

The Poisonous Terrestrial Snakes of India and Ceylon