News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1894-08-16

are cases of this kind called "leonine
for the reason that the face is so wild
ened and enlarged and made severe that
the countenance looks like lion. The
anasthetic form is a whitening, thin-
ming out, a wasting away, depletion
a skeletonizing process.
Q.-Is it contagious?
A.-There are different opinions
about that. have seen in married life,
the husband or wife a leper for years
and the partner in life always in good
health. l have known a leprous parent
to have a healthy child. l was talking
ON this subject with an eminent physi-
tian, who said to me: "Doyou see those
two children playing together? The one
is a leper and the other my own child,
and l have no fear about contamina-
tion. "
Q.-How many patients are there in
Molollai at the present time?
About 1000.
Here ended my conversation with the
former member of the board Of health
of the Sandwich Islands Up TO date
the woe goes on. Only two weeks ago
ship took 20 more lepers to Molokai.
The scene Of par ing is said to be so
heartrending that but few people go to
the wharf to witness it. The wailing
and bowling at the parting Of families
as the filial and fraternal and paternal
and maternal bonds are broken is some
thing that haunts the memory. Not long
ago young man sentenced to the leper
island declared he would not be taken
alive He shot three of those who were
attempting to segregate him and then
hid in hut until cannon on neigh
boring hill bombarded the hut into a
wreck. Then a relative went to the hut
and found the young man dead.
But do not let us give up discouraged.
Leprosy as we'll as cancer and all the
other unconquered ailments will yet be
cured. / do not know where the cradle
now holding the coming doctor is being
rocked, whether at Molokai, or i'll Hon
olulu, or on the banks of the Thames,
or the Rhine, or the Tiber, or the Ural,
or the Hudson, or the Savannah, nor do
/ know from what college he will I'M
roll his diploma, nor in what laboratory
he will make his experiments, nor i'll
what decade he will give proclamation
of the worlds emancipation from
diseases as yet incurable, but he will
40 through the same prosecutions that
DR.. Jenner did because of his dis
covery of way to halt smallpox, and
as DR.. Kelley has endured because OF
his almost supernatural cure of alcohol
ism, and the new discovery will run
the gauntlet Of caricature and expulsion
from medical societies, and will, like
the most illustrious being Of all ages,
become the target for expectoration, but
the discoverer will give Ieprosy the com
mand, "Thus far shalt thou CO. and nc
farther" and that disease will wrigglt
and crawl and shrink out of the world,
and after the medical emancipation is
dead the nations will build monument
so high to his memory that the granite
shaft will disputowith the skies the right
of possession, and i'll the epitaph Thereon
the clicking chisel will try to atone fol
the slanderous tongue, and the world
that held back from the discoverer the
bread of honest praise will give him {
storm of post mortem commomoration
Forward the whole column of surgeons
ard physicians for the conquest Of lep
rosy and cancer
T. De WITT TALMAGE.