The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1879-05-01
A LIVING DEATH.

4 LIVING DEATH.
r.-pro.y Azsong the shsaese rs Described
by CssESes wnyr~n ssoa<a.ra.
Jan Francisco Chronicle.
The "keen, Industrious, intelligent
Chinsmar," which Henry Ward Beecher
has intro6seed to the American pablic
and who b SO beautifully portrayed by
Thomas N&st of Harper Weekly brings
with him 20 these ,hores- the seeI of
dishonor that probably dstes bass to the
fall of mzn. Whether with the ssascity
which has shut the gates Of then walled
world Against the ba-barisns of me globe
for cons past, they foster this browning
evil of he. flesh, = know not bat GER
tain it Is that 4eG000,000 Mongolians
inherit 3erefulous, tendencies, and that
with them the lsprous seed seems to
germin Ute spontaneously. Tbs horrible
ana fatal disease has already hsen intros
duced into Csliiorniss; it hss followed
the Chinese to every land where they
colonieed. Iwil,ancn attempt to prove
that >, little leasr may leaaen a whole
race. But, first, do you know of what
we treat ? MnInGrel, an old English
travsler of the seventeenth century,
writing of this leprosY he. saw in SYRIA,
says: 1t is, distenper so noisome
that it might we'll pass Tor the utmost
corruption OF the human body on this
side of the gtsve." And we'll it might T.
Behold the
DIAGNOSIS OE TXE GREEKS !:
When leprosy is fully developed it is
characterized by the presence of dusky,
red or livid tuberoaes of different sizes
upon the face, lips, nose, eyebrows. ears
and extTemities of the body. The skin
of the tuberculated face is at the same
time thickened, wrinkled and shining,
and the features are very greatly dis
torted. The hsir of the eyebrows, eyes
lsshes and beard drops OF /; the eyes are
often injected and tAe conjunctiva
swelled; the pupil of the eye contracts,
giving the organ a wierd, cat.like ex-
preston the voice becomes hoarse and
nasal; the sense of smell is impaired or
lost, and that of touch, or common sen-
sation, is strangely altered ; the turber-
culated parts, which are, in the first in
stance sometimes representative, latterly,
in the course of the disease, become par
alyzed or anesthetic. As the malady
progresses, the tubercles soften and open;
alterations of similar mucous tubercles
appear in the nose aad throat, rendering
the breath extremely offensive; tuber-
cular masses, or leprous tubercles, as
shown by dissection, begin to form in
ternslly upon various mucous membranes
and on the surface of the kidneys,
lungs, &C.; cracks, assures and circular
ulcers appear on the fingers, toes and
extremities, and joint after joint drops
off by kind of spontaneous gangrene.
Sometimes the upper and sometimes
the lower extremities are specially sfflict-
Ell by this modification and mutilation
of parts. An eastern traveller, Doctor
Hslbeck, in locking down from neigh>
boring height into
THE GREAT LEPER HOSPITAL
of Hsmel en- Arade, tells US that he
noticed two lepers sowing peas in the
field: "the one had no hands, tee other
had no feet, these members being wasted
away by disease. The one who wanted
hands was carrying the other, who
wanted feet, on his back, and he again
carried in his hand bag of seed, and
dropped pea every now and then,
which the other pressed into the ground
with his feet" 1t is not the fashion to
discuss this subject, but inasmuch as, to
quote Mr.. Beecher, eve have insisted
upon it that they (the Chinese) shall
come here, and they are coming, and
somebody has got to get out of the way"
let US see what possible fate awaits those
who have the moral courage to stand
their ground. Mezeray records that in
the Twelfth century there was scarcely a
town or village in France without its
leper hospital. Muratori gives similar
account of the extent of the disease dur
ing the Middle Ages in Italy; cid Scan
dinavian historians amply prove that
the inhabitants of the kingdoms of
Northern Europe equally became its
unfortunate victims. In England and
Scotland, during the Middle Ages, lep-
rosy was rife as it was on the neighbor.
ing continent. Almost every large
town in Great Britain had q leper hos
pitsl or village near it, for the recep-
ton and isolation of the diseased. Some
of the cities were supplied with more
than one lazsr-heuse. There were six of
these establishments in Norwich, or it's
immediate vicinity, and five at Lynn
Regis.
YEARS OF FEARFUL CARE
have thinned out the ranks of the sf
hicted, but the fruitful seeds CT the dis
ease are broadcast, and it is reasonable
to suppose that SO long as mankind re-
mains susceptible to all the ills
of the flesh, he may not despair of