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  1. ... or vegetable diet prescribed in all cases of leprosy. THE SYMPTOMS OF HERPES, OR CREEPING TETTER, OR SALT RHEUM. ... 24 A REVIEW OF THE PRESENT SYSTEMS THE SYMPTOMS OF ELEPHANTIASIS, OR TUBERCULOUS LEPROSY. Elephantiasis is characterized* by dusky, red, or livid ...
  2. ... lasts, on an average, about nine years. Anaesthetic Leprosy. Febrile symptoms are absent in nerve leprosy as a rule, ... decolorizing with nitric acid. Diagnosis. In countries where leprosy prevails as an epidemic the prodromic symptoms are always likely to arouse suspicion, but where ...
  3. ... may reach an advanced age. Fig. 272.—Anaesthetic leprosy. MEDICAL DIAGNOSIS. cirrhosis of the liver, and chronic nephritis. Cases ... sensory and motor nerves. The anaesthetic form of leprosy is due to a ... 792 MEDICAL DIAGNOSIS. chymatous and the interstitial. Whatever may be the ...
  4. ... in other lingering but not otherwise mortal maladies.' Symptoms.-Leprosy makes its beginning so lightly and so unobtrusively, ... Varieties.-Starting with one uniform series of premonitory symptoms, leprosy after a while evinces a remarkable tendency to ...
  5. ... According to Collas, it is an am- putating leprosy. The diagnosis is easy. There is no disease which resembles ...
  6. NLM Digital Collections - Preventive medicine in World War II (Volume 5) 
    Publication: Washington, D.C. : Office of the Surgeon General, Dept. of the Army : For sale by the Supt. of Docs., U.S. G.P.O., 1955-
    ... back and he experienced pe- riods of nervousness. Diagnosis: Leprosy, type not determined. Case 5.—White man, born ... Admitted to National Leprosarium on 25 August 1950. Diagnosis: Lepromatous leprosy. Case 6.—White man, born in Ohio on ...
  7. ... common failure of reporting the correct or final diagnosis. LEPROSY Leprosy was reported first in a case of the anesthetic facial type in a man in July, 1918, and the diagnosis in this case was definitely determined. In September ...
  8. ... production of a cachexia which usually terminates fatally. Symptoms.—Leprosy has also been termed Elephantiasis Gr.e- corum, ... boldly that, certainly in America, the diagnosis of leprosy requires not only clinical symptoms but a definite contagion. Whether the history of ...
  9. Contact your health care provider if you have symptoms of leprosy, especially if you have had contact with someone ...
  10. NLM Digital Collections - A few cases of leprosy 
    Publication: New Orleans : L. Graham Steam Book Printer, 1880
    ... then gradually settling into a chronic form, finally leprosy suspected, The diagnosis was gradually confirmed and improvement occurred under nitrate ... that in no instance had he seen any symptoms of leprosy manifested earlier than five years of age. Thus ...
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