The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1879-04-20

any work that was made Of skin. 1t was
fretting leprOsy,' and it Was burned In the
fire. This was the law for the leprosy Of q
when the priest looked after the bodies of
his flock as well as after the souls. What
was the result? In spite Of the stringency Of
the Mosaic law, the Isolation, the purging
with hyssop, the
CLEANSING BY FIRE,
vt. Luke has written in his gospel xvii, ~:
There met Him ten men who were lepers,
voices and cried, Jesus, master, have mercy
upon u.s. And to-day-more than eighteen
hundred years later-the Iepers gather upon
the slope Of Mount Zion, and hover at the
shadow Of the tomb Of David. crying for
bread. The leprosy. once grated upon this
nation we are lost, for the virus will course
through the best veins in the land and we
have seen how hopless a task it is to attempt
to eradicate the evil. There is q learned and
conclusive essay on 'tLeprosy and Leper Hos
pitfalls in Scotland and England, by Sir James
Y. Simpson, Bart, OF the University of Edin-
burgb, wherein much curious information is
gathered from all quarters ara, = Though Sir
does not pretend to deny the contagious
character Of the disease. He gives a list Of
ITO lepers-houses that existed In Great
Britain from the twelfth to the sixteenth
century. He says: by Astruc, Bach and
Of the Middle-Ages was introduced from the
East py those VINO returned lroIn tne cru
sades, though the disease was not unknown
oh Inc continent az an carrier peflou, anu
gleIe were Two lazaTrnouse az CanotlpuIy
curing the reign OF william Inc ConqueIOi,;
seven years previous to the first crusade, =
Even
THE ROYAL FAMILIES
OF England and Scotland were not exempt
being lener- RI Was . local tradtinn that
fine lener- house Of Waterford IN ireland was
founded nv KING John father nf Henry TT
in eonseni1ence Of his son heinn affiliated AZ
Lismore with an ERUPTION that was thoupht
10 be leprosv. Historians have alleged That
Henry " was lenrous toward the end Of his
life. King Robert the Brmea died If ienros s,7
and Baldwin nv. King IF Jernsalam died -
the age of three and twenty. a lener Cali
fornia, to-day. as Mr.. Beecher declares. nav
nndigested nstionalties. sha NAV he suffa =.
mo from ia want Of sense If nnblic iustice
~ uniuareal morality Of the hrnfherhond II
man !" Perhans If ID sttba want, Of the Gosnel
spirit that ais the Pacific States to-day" but
the Gosnel. according to Mr.. Beecher. cannot
save no nor tha pratnitous nfferinps Of tbe
usa ,ne , If tho East who follow the clerinai
star that hangs oyer the Gitv of Church
seandals As far Mr. Cook Of Rostnn. he has
not the feeble exeuse for advising the Presi-
ant an nnnTIa Chinese
t;nn HIT M Raechar has for the latter
@ent,aman snent at least q few DAYS within
gana ranpe IF his subject The lenrosv 81
antianitu Seems to have been visited nnon
.aor1a h;ab in nftiea az q nuniabment for ain
RThapra nav uat he ianrosv enough nronanatad
IN these Ifnited Sta "a meet ali demands
r. i Tn ,rthin TIC limits IT the noaeihia fnr
- $500, -, r.l>,se,r,
me .aiA foooh
70 9ee1e aa1at 10 .h anu W s.l1 peopi9
sliuiso LII ~ 1,Sro .a7e i,
IGuleMlE az ~ sna that
Injury T9a okin DISEASES st illu " t thi
iepLosy sAlsts VI gs esssietn 9ulta ~ nalls
d. Wv IN ar1c, a.as 80 &c
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nal of Syphilography and Dermatotogy. vol. 4,
series of lectures by Robert Liveing. M. D..
IF there is one thing certain about leprosy
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