The Ohio organ, of the temperance reform. (Cincinnati, [Ohio]) 1853-1854, 1853-03-04
ne Isprosy II Norway.

a letter rom James =. Richmond
to DR. Wainwright, dated Norway,
Sept 20, 1852, and published in the
EVangelic Catholic, states that the gen.
Lume Oriental leprosy as describedbg
Moses and healed BY our Saviour, OK
lists in that country. The leprosy,
Mr.. Richmond says, was at one time
prevalent in both Englandand France,
having been introduced into those
countries by the returned pilgrims
who had intermarried in the Holy
Land. BUTT was atlength extirpated
| by sanitary regulations of the most
stringent and oppressive character
Every person tainted with the disease
was seized and isolated from the pub
lie in q government leprosy house.
The disease, not contagious, but he
reditary, was thus eradicated. No in
stance, until recently, has ever been
known Of an individual once tainted
with the loathsome disease, becoming
cured, except BY miracle. It may
disappear for one generation, only to
re-appear in the next. The govern
ment Of Norway has taken the matter
in hand, in addition to a "leprosy
houSe," which has existed for FIVE
hundred years, have recently estab-
lished hospital, The first the sOorld
ever knew for the cure Of the leprosy.
It has been only three years in opera
ton, under the management Of DR..
DanielIssen, and this gentleman be-
lieves that he has succeeded in curing
eight lepers, the first that have ever
been cured by medical means. He
has analyzed the blood of the dis
eased persons, and finds it to contain
too much albumen, and febrile matter,
and Of course directs his efforts to the
removal of the excess. He has pub
/ lished a scientific work, with plates
/ in the French and Danish languages.
II ! he institution is well provided with
/ fresh and sea water, and vapor baths.
/ The writer thinks there is great
danger of the disease being imported
into America. 1t is much the most
i prevalent on the Western coast, among
i the inhabitants of which one in every
/ fifty is leper; and 1t is from that por-
ton Of The country the increasing emf
/ grafton takes place.
/ DR.. DanielIssen says he is certain
that the disease will show itself among
/ these immigrants, for he knows leprous
individuals who have gone to the U. S.
and one in particular, quite recently,
whom he endeavored in vain to dis
suade, and in whom the disease was
only beginning to appear.
/ Mr.. Richmond recommends that
early measures be adopted to prevent
the introduction here of such dis
ease, and that physicians be appointed
at the ports where Norwegian emil
grants arrive, to examine them, and
in case a leprous individual is discov-
cred, to give him his choice either of
returning to his own country or being
transferred to hospital. The writer
concludes as follows:
"Could you have seen, as indeed
you did in the East, the poor crea.
tuers, some afflicted with that type Of
the disease which covers the face, and
even the eyelids, with red lubercles,
and by the growth Of the same within
the throat, destroys the speech, re-
duces it to a husky and hoarse effort,
while the poor leper in a few years
descends to the tomb, or could you
behold the limbs by degrees dropping
from the body, and while they remain,
so destitute Of feeling that the poor
sufferers frequently burn themselves
with deep scars before they are even
aware Of the heat, you would not
wonder that should wish to arouse
such attention, before it is too late, as
II m av sncure nostarifu AGAINST this 1oath.