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disease, the animals so inoculated run no risk
but on the contrary are thereby completely
protected from the original disease. This pro-
cess is known as the culture experiment.
To prove this, Pasteur took fifty sheep from
the same band and inoculated half of them
from his prepared bouillon. They were all
made sick by the incubation, but only slightly
so, and soon recovered; then he noculated the
entire fifty with splenic fever those previously
inoculated with the prepared bouillon suffered
no harm, while in few hours all the balance
were dead. Now in my opinion, this is just
what is taking place here. The native is now
going through the culture process. In other
words, it is "the survival of the fttest " and
the weak 60 to the wall. In the few cases
where white men have contracted syphilis
here, and it has run on into leprosy, the dis
ease from defect of constitution has reverted
back to its original type But, in the vast
majority of cases, the white man escapes much
more easily than the native.
This idea is fully borne out by experience.
1 have labored most earnestly to get the true
history of cases of leprosy as they have APP
peared here among whites. In every case, ex-
cept one, that l have seen so far the disease
has only appeared among adult males /; and in
everyone of these cases the disease has been a
just reward of the patients RIGHTEOUSNESS in
the one exception, if common report be true, a
parents sin has borne its legitimate fruit. In
other cases here where white children have
contracted it, vaccination has been the cause.
How then has leprosy become so widespread
A young native woman came to me year ago,
suffering with primary syphilis in its most con-
tagious stage. Shortly after she left for one of
the other Islands, walking magazine Of dis
ease. Now, in from seven to ten years, a case
of leprosy is likely to appear in the neighbor-
hood Of her home and then another and an
other according to superficial observers, they
will all have been contracted from the first case
appearance of the first. My belief is the girl
who left here was the initial point Of contagion
IN that place.
Another objection frequently made by ply
sicians to my position is: "Why cannot we
cure this as we can syphilis" Gross, the great
Su6Soh ~ <hhSiiN", S"yS' AhS P'ebho'iS
Of tertiary syphilis is always grave, whatever
form it may assume it is extremely difficult to
dislodge it efectually from the system or to
effect radical cure. Relapses are Of constant
occurrence from the most trivial exposure or the
least disorder Of the digestive organs and few
patients however skillfully they may have been
treated are afterwards ever entirely free from
rheumatic pains, proneness to cold and stiffness
of the joints; in fact, although recovery UNI
doubtedly does occasionally take place yet in
most cases the constitution remains in an en-
feebled and crippled condition remarkably
subject to attacks Of other diseases" In this
connection may be mentioned the case Of the
great French surgeon Guersant, who accident
ally inoculated himself in the hand while doing
some operation on child suffering from in
herted syphilis. In spite Of his own skill and
that Of all his colleagues, the disease was
shortly the occasion Of his death. Following
these statements Of the incurability OF syphilis,
the following extract from report Of statistics
Of leprosy in Norway, copied from an article
in the Hatuiian Gassfft Of March "a, 1883,
will show what are the results in leprosy.
The number of cured in the same period Of
: twenty-five years is Io7, while the number Of
deaths by leprosy during the same time is
1891"
In conclusion, have only to say no man
who has led virtuous life has, as far as my
knowledge extends, ever been sufferer from
leprosy in Hawaii. | have never positively
known Of white woman having it. Dcccncy
is the only true and necessary policy.