The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1873-07-09

p1hiicztiou assist 10 enhghien the public mind 90
this subject, Respectfully Yours.
S E. BIsHoF.
os@4eat--y oa LevfticuA Chapter Kill
4 Huspg-74no, q he Subes-H Na=es IF tie
Dissass-IT lis Nafure-TT Tie TEbeT-
e.,iaied Tz7lszy-T The ARRSiLssic Trristy
W E1oh form recognized b. fie AHcieafs-
VI Subo7dinais Fdriefes- VII Is Il IN
ou-asis'-LK i II Rs-edi,s-y * Is Il
Epdszics-XL VIA Circumstances foster
Es-EL hl CoHiggioEs9
!. TIE isp-Osy is the NOS, terrible OF al the
disorders to uhich the body OF man is subject
There is 40 disease in which hope Of recovery is
90 nearly eItinFuisbed. From commencement
siEhi IN appearance with bot little pam or incon-
reuieooe- often in its earlier stages insidiousy
disappearing and reappeanng. ii goes on in its
strong Bat sluggish course. generally in defiance
q Ire Efforts Of medical skill until It reduces The
Iaiieni 10 . INITIATED cripple with duiled or OBJ
hie-zts5 senses. the voice turned to & croak. and
Fhastly dsforIity OF features. When il reaches
some viisl Pari Il generally occasions what seem
Ike The symptoms Of distinct disease tmosi
often dyssuteryl. and 50 puts an end to the life
Of the sufferer.
lie mO6e Of selecting its victims has something
O. The sane mysterious deliberziion as its mode
q sliuek- Il presses OF slowly from country 10
country and iron race 10 race. as little checked
By Fa-1ations Of climate as BY artificial remedies
i TIE type o. disease is 10 sumo degree modified
Il different cOuniries or IL particular cases. BY
iocz circumstances Or constitutional peculiarities
u usrer fails 10 have its own wsy in the general
character Of the effect produced. From the time
q Noses al the coming Of Christ We know that
Il prevailed amongst The Hebrew rzoe. At this
tine. as a whole. that race does rot seen 10 be
especially subject TO IL II has moved Of. and
has II turn visited slmOst every other branch Of
Tie human family. On the most superficial view
q The suhjeei. It would seem that no disease
oould 50 vel deserve 10 be singled out by Divine
VISION Is the object Of special laws.
OUiHg 10 The happy exemption ID modern times
q The greater part Of Earope from the dreadful
scou7ye. as vel rs 10 The Iurkine secrecy Of It's
oEa nature, The subject in its bearing on the
Leyiticai law has been besei with doubts until
wI-hiu The last few years Our information re-
speciing Il incOhereni and unsatisfactory. be-
mr. manly derived from the insulated and inner.
fect reports Of individual observers in distant
lEnds. Dot one Of whom had well examined suf-
Scent number Of cases 10 furnish ground for fair
eene-ailzaiiou- Il vas not until the appearance
O. rePo-t on The leprosy IN Norway. drawn up
un5er the ss1ctiou Of the Government by Dr.
Danielssen. Chief Physician Of the Leper hos
PiiEl a Bergen, and Pref BOeok published in
Pans. ls4s) that there Sere materials for treat
iaE The inquiry in s neibodical WAY Recent
medical writers. especially Mr.. Erasmus Wilson
and Dr. A T. Thomson. have added some i'm
Po-taui observations. Mr.. Wilson has devoted
chapter Of bis book On Diseases Of the Skim
70 The illustration Of Leviiicos XII fourth edition
p So. Bat since The Publication Of that work,
Tie College Of PHYSICIANS have issued series Of
questions regarding the nature Of leprosy. It's
Preraieoce. and lis treatment, 10 which answers
have beer received from the best qualified persons
IN above fry places on the shores Of the Medi-
American Colonies and the West Indies; from
these answers a report has been drawn mp Mr.. /
Z Atkinson Of Leeds. formerly surgeon TO the |
JsEs hospital at Jerusalem. collected valuable 4
bo5y o. ObserTafions, IN his visits TO the leper !
houses IRON Isle 10 1850. with which the writer
has beer favored ~ manuscript Chiefly from /
these sources The information contsined in the 1
folioSjng noies respecting the nature sud symp- /
toms Of tbs disease have been drawn. Not .
o1ly The sEPianallSa Of Ibe Leviical law, but the
importance which the leP-Osy assumes in the his
tori Of the human rsee, and of the Israelites 10
psr1icuiar, nay Justify the space which is here
gwen 10 the subject
II Much confusion has arisen from the an
biEuiiy Of the name il popular use. The He
h-sW word for the disease 10 which the law re-
lzsss q ls1nalz1t or mega tsGrq'atA In the
EnEisb Bi6ie. kara al is slssys rendered leprO-
q, ae9a lzz7a'G-i plague Of IeprOsy From its
derivation t-zra'ash has nearly the same mean
inE as nega. / E. stroke. But lsara,d-h became
the specific name Of the disease. aud is nowhere
f00od il any other sense except in so far as it is
Eppliei 70 s disease with similar aspect in Lev.
zia. u Se7z, on the contrary. is general
name Tor plague. stroke or wound Gen. XII, Il;
Dent rvH- s Chroo. vi IS; Pc. xxxviii II
lzxrir. 81; Is In. 8 &c From the way in
EticA rs visitation was regarded. mega is, how
ever. frequently applied TO il without tsura'ath,
- ssrols Is applied 10 paralysis among ourselves
Lev. Kiii. Il. % 81 &c
Il e nov considered by al the best authorities
thEf Ezra 1si does Dot denote the disease which
IL more properly called The leprOsy 81. bat that
Shich Is knosn 20 physicians as the eleDtaRtiasis
As ne rlgbt distinction IN applying the names
vas clearly observed BY the Greek and Latin
rsdic4l writers IL. and as both the elephantiasis
and the leprosy must have been iamilizrly known
i Egypt. il e remarkable that the LXX should
have adopted lspna as the rendering Of tzaTa'atE-
To then must be ascIhed the fact that EsDrosv
hzs become the established scrpibral name. and
thai By which the disease vas universally known
II The uiddie ages
Il seems worth while 70 observe that elephsn-
tiasis Is 0fisn POp0luriy used rs the name Of q