The Delaware ledger. (Newark, Del.) 1879-19??, 1888-01-28
THE CURSE OF bAWAll.
TIE RAPID SPREAD or LEPHcsY
AMONG THE INHABITANTS.

Symptoms and Progress Of the fright.
full Disease.
lady resident at Honolulu, wl,ose oduca-
ton AMI accomplishments rank far above the
average, even in Boston, told Inc that she
was not certain she had ever seen more than
one or two lepers during her residence of
twenty years, and then only by visits to the
fish markets i'll the earliest morning hour.
Consult the almanac or political pamphlet Of
tho hallkaua government and you set 10 in
formation of lcprosy The lppeIs now num-
Der between ,OG0 and $50, though any
estimate can only be an approximation, s. ace
pronounced and plainly visible cuscs only are
confessed lepcrs 1t might be fair to say
there are l,20J lcpcla out Of 40,e0J natives.
The victim Of this disease is subjected 10 the
dreadful fate OF incSorablc, irrcvocnblc ban
ishment upon tho discovery of the fact.
Hence the patient, aided BY all his kindred,
evadcs detection to the last, and 0ftentimes
this is successfully done until the most re.
pulsivc stages Of the disease are reached.
Taught by tho alarming increase Of this dis
order the authorities rigidly seek TO separate
those infected from those not afflicted, and
have set apart what is known Us "Iepers'
valley" on the island Of Moloka, where ap-
preached 10y narrow inlet, bay and small
territory il found, surrounded by mountains
too lofty to admit Of escape, except through
the entrance that Is carefully guardcd to pre-
vent insrca Or cgress. We dvcl upon the
poetit pi,iure Of The Plutona shores, and
recall thc holciul warning: VINO enters here
leaves hopa lehind;n hut to my mind nothing
SO dire exists as this dreadful journey to the
Lepois' valley
Tho query, of coarse, Is this: What is it'll
Everybody not idiolic would ask that cues
ton What causes it. And this is about the
only question that intelligent people agree
on in answcring-syphilisl that's the word.
Capt. Cool; ttho missionaries are very severe
on him, and viii be, | judge to the latest
generatioul had some sad wrecks with him
iA lis voyages, and unfortunately for them
Ac landed among the Hawaiians This, as l
sly, is the conceded source and character
Of l,prosy And you must not expect me
to incriard what write with terms scientific.
/ wis! to be understood and not to be re-
garded wisa.
Next. Is lh-ro any curet And have
quiz2cd the bet physicians that l could hear
OF and find thGG none claim to know a
specific. \ quaci lived in the Islands for
but he was soon found to be an crlniric and
was compelled TO flee after injuring his
patients hy destructive drugs 1t is needless
to say lic lett with wei filled pockets from
.he fruits Of successful humLuggery One
person, apparently very intelligent, spoke Of
japanese doctor now trying a new method
and many experiments, confidently predict
ing u curative Treatment.
But the most ansi1u, inquiry Ct all re-
mainsi is it contugious.' The Increase Of
this curse, that so rapidly deeiilates a simple
people and other racts in contact, naturally
intensilie, this question. Contagious it must
be- But how communicated.
was reliably informed that ior long time
the theory was entertained that tho virus was
carried from the miserable subjects by the
musquito LIT your inaginati N play upon
this conception for moment. Afierward it
was determined that this theory must be
wrong, else al would he lcpers for the mus
quitocs in all this region are n myriad
WHITTIER and how far contact disseminatcs
the disease has hccn a matter Of experiment
by incubation And recently Il man con
demuc.l o. death was turned over to the ex-
perimenting ,loetor, hat, nilnbile dictu, lit
wouldn't take, though they tried it by vac
cination over and over and from different in
dividuas The explanation was that he ives
man of great physical viSor, whose system
resisted the virus, thus fortifying the theory
OF many tina, the disease makes Roadway only
among thos' with enervated constitutions,
and that the llnwauns are race degenerate
through Lastly Of morals
Not long since q medical practitioner, very
eminent in lis profession, who had attained
wealth uii was surrounded by doting fam
ily announced ihnt he must not lie az
preached, that he fearel he was infected with
leprosy. lie had Lco.l pspcrmen. ing in inocu.
laton and uihorwii', to discover cause and
cure and though us.n. every known precau-
and as any tn. natives are seldom infected,
be was thought insane But it soon trans
pired that beyond all question ho was attacked
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