Extracts from a Report on Leprosy and Yaws in the West Indies
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the conviction 011 my own mind, had any doubt existed before, that Leprosy is a constitutional cachexy, or an unhealthy condition, not of any one part or texture of the body, but of its whole framework and system (morbus totius corporis). The malady to which it has the greatest analogy is unquestionably scrofula, and it will greatly aid the reader, more especially the unprofessional one, in appreciating the subject under consideration, if he keeps this idea always before him. It is not a little
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دوره 9 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2016