The Hawaiian gazette., 1889-12-24
BERarx. NoErAy. Noy. 8. lSSa.
DSIE. 1852.


- De understood
The questions You treat Of IN your
letter cannot be well answered with
cut writing s treatise and that would
be 4 little too much for you and for
ne
As 70 cnrsbility OF leprosy I can
have no ides Of the influence OF
c-iusfe thsreUp0n. as I never saw
the disease n the tropics. 1t Is true
thai with Us seme patients leave our
hospitals cured. but / viii not pre-
tend that they are cured by the
treatment / am more inclined TO
tLlnk that leprOSy Is cured. prin-
clp2lly AZ Sny rate, IN its natural
course without the interference of
s-y treatment. If the patients only
i've long enough All the leproUs
eruption, the tubers Is well as the
pzsehes, disappear IN due time, but
generally tie tuberculsr patients die
before the due time
have. however seen tubereular
czsss, u when al tubers had dlssp-
psSre6. there only remained snaes-
tbesl2 - II the other form Of the
6lssSse, and the patients IN whom
there = only left SDseSthesiS without
any skin eruption I for NY part con
siisr IS cured Of leprosy; the sn2es-
thesis Is only the bad consequence
q the disease. Sometimes It hap
pens that the skin eruption, when It
consist only Of patches, morphOea,
disappears without having any
snssStheSis- but that Is very seldom,
for generally the nerves are attacked
very early, snd It Is rarely the case
thzt the nerve affection Is cured
without leaving SnsesihesiS In later
yezrs Dr. UnnG, N Hamburg, pre-
tends that he cures the disease by
the remedies named n your letter
resorcine. pyrogelhe scid snd Iethy-
IeSn have no certsIu opinion
n this matter. ss never saw any Of
rs patlents- Meanwhile, DR.. Dan
islsen here has tned his treatment,
s1d. a. far IS his experiments hither-
e - the results are not better than
b 5thsr treatment
Tou Sc that I cannot give you
sny vslusble facts on the treatment (
Of the dlSssse-
n ny opinion II Is safest TO con
si5sr the disease ss Ineursble and 10 I
lsy al ones power On the prevention I
= The diSssSe- In this respect much (
can b done. The disease being con I
tsEioas- but probably very little 50. /
clssuEnsss alone :, II NY opinion, /
snoazh . prevent II. Ie01sider the 4
surssf OF the disease N Norway as 4
only depending On the want OF 4
clsznlinsss among our peasants and 4
On the want OF fesr OF the contsgi
ocsnsss Of the disease, which has 4
ureFaiis5 among Is till late years. 4
The cousscueree Of which has been I
shzr paople have had unlimited IN
rs-courss With lepers- Probably this 1
: rbs csse n HsSsn also. sS l judge I
sron al Ehst ! have read and heard 4
sbo1t the coU1uy-
In 1886 and 1861 We had here IN
N0-xzv three sSyIgms for lepers,
SnSo which Cd 70 this day have been
tzkeo II about 400 lepers- These
hsra n tbs way been isolated from
tie so1ud popalstlOa and have lot
bar abe 10 contSDl0zre anybody 4
r. -1useoaeucs Of this l. that
EblIe II 1856 ne had scout 5000
Izus-s u NorEsy ne nov have
hSr,slv 100 1 cannot Just now give
~ rse exsct figures a. the stats
- F,~ ISSS zre nOs Est ready the
- u uzklng I'D the statistics for
N--zsr i IlttIe dI6czlt Is the ~
o'-eS fre1n tie dlfsrszt phys1els1s
= e tolsrzbEy Irge country dc not
- n = speedily As they ought 70
q. Bat AZ zy rate they can be 10
s,-hs On the polnt that the Isolation
- - fsuers = the chief cause OF
e Siuinurion Of the disease IN
Thare slso n the last fifteen years
S-z.ssI< written and talked OF the
- a = couszg1ozS one and most
-..---ts ro< co1ss6er Il as such . one
- he Consequence : that they
- become z1ze cautious II their
s-ss-r,urse With lepsrs- Al TIE
- rsus s1r peasants have made
- 1-or-ess n clsa1I1ess- and
-. fi-zf tie 6lsesss n some forty
- SfsS yezrs shzn bzve disappeared
- q ussrly 50 fruu NOrEay-
- III our Measures can Dc
- God for yozr country As
a shSs. I cznnot tel
Il 6epe1ds Ea1ch q the state o.
and / have 10 idea WnaE
Il Eoz1d be necessary
:, uzte n the arrange1enrs for
$500 1solsfSa1- this beng the
~ uears of exNngulshlng the
II te Hzu11zz GcEs<nue1t
- usr f1r the ezpe1se q the
..-rr.rs I sl1o1ld liz vezE sci 10 see
-. $50 czce ard gat1er nzors I