This document discusses a disfiguring disease known as the "leprosy" or "leproft" that was observed among some families in an island. The disease starts with a goatee-like appearance and deforms the sufferers terribly as it progresses. It is described as being hereditary, infectious through contact, and incurable despite various medical treatments tried. The uncertainty around its symptoms created great dread among the island's inhabitants.
This document discusses a disfiguring disease known as the "leprosy" or "leproft" that was observed among some families in an island. The disease starts with a goatee-like appearance and deforms the sufferers terribly as it progresses. It is described as being hereditary, infectious through contact, and incurable despite various medical treatments tried. The uncertainty around its symptoms created great dread among the island's inhabitants.
This document discusses a disfiguring disease known as the "leprosy" or "leproft" that was observed among some families in an island. The disease starts with a goatee-like appearance and deforms the sufferers terribly as it progresses. It is described as being hereditary, infectious through contact, and incurable despite various medical treatments tried. The uncertainty around its symptoms created great dread among the island's inhabitants.
cont.:goatee, that attends, is the lois of <home pank,
that drop off by the mortification ; for thc woq heals of itfelf, without any application: but when comes to its lab period, the poor lick perfoos art Isah' ribly deformed, and truly worthy of compel/Ion. This fliocking difeafe is obi:creed to have other unhappy charaCters ; as, IA, that k is here5m tag, and that Come families are more apt to be kis* with it than others: idly, that it is infeetious, beigo communicated tee taitum, and alio caught by/cavort company with thole fo difeafed gdly, that -a incurable, or at kali that no remedy has yet b:r found to cure it. They have in vain tried mere*. rials, iudorifics, and every other regimen tied is venereal complaints, under a notion, that this tem(' :I ! was the confequente of ihme venereal taint e
inthead of being of fervice, thole methods rather '
fused to debroy the patients ; for, far front klisal ; the difeafe, the antivenereal medicines unlocked the - diftemper, the moth dreadful fungtoms appeared, and all thofc in treated perithed iome years foamy than the others, who ihd not uke thefe medicines. A very jail fear of being inieCted with this mei dithemper the diniculty of examining infethad Fict- ions before the diteafe came to its [late ; the length of time of its lying c,ncealesl, by the ewe of de patients to keep it liCret ; the uncertainty of the svhich ditlingunh it in the beginning; produced an ex:tor:I:nary dread in a:I the inhabitants of thia Wand. Th:y one another, bee vir- tue and merit had :in theltsr frgm tht; cruel km/. They called this dlilemper the !croft ; and conter iluyntly ref:in:ea fevers: memeirs to the generals 1111i IIII<Da."
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