Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1893-1895, 1894-08-14

are cases Of this kind called ''ieonine, f"
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 withering, a thin
ming out, wasting away, depletion,
skeletonizing process.
Q.-ls it contagious?
A.-There are different opinions
about that. l have seen in married life
the husband or wife a leper for years
and the partner in life always in good
health. have known a leprous parent
to have healthy child. / was talking
ON this subject with an eminent physi
clan, who said TO me: "Do you see those
two children playing together? The one
is a lopcr and the ether my own child,
and l have no fear about contamina-
tion.
Q.-How many patients are there in
Molokai at the present time?
A.-About / 900.
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 n
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 q neigh
boring hill bonn barded the hut into a
wreck. Then relative went TO tho hut
and found the young man dead.
But do rot let us give up discouraged.
Leprosy as well as cancer and all the
OthCr unconGuered ailments will yet be
| cured. ] do not know where the cradle
| now holding the coming doctor is being
rocked, whether at Molokai, OF i'll Hon
Olulu, CT Cn the banks of the Thames,
OF the Rhine, or the Tiber, or the Ural,
or tho Hudson, or the Savannah nor do
know from what college he will un-
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
go through the same prosecutions that
DR.. Jenner did because of his dis
covory of d way to halt smallpox, and
as Or. Keeley has endured because Of
his almost supernatural cure Of alcohol
ism, and the new discovery will run
the gantlet of caricature and expulsion
from medical societies, and WILL like
the most illustrious being of all ages,
become the target for expoctoration, but
the discoverer will give leprosy the COM
mand, "Thus far shalt thou go, and no
farther" and that disease will wriggle
and crawl and shrink out of the world,
and after the medical emancipator is
dead the nations will build a monument
so high to his memory that the granite
shaft will disputewith the skies the right
of possession, and i'll the epitaph thereon
the clicking chisel will try to atone for
| the slanderous tongue, and the world
| that held back from the discoverer the
bread of honest praise will give him a
storm Of post mortem commemoration.
Forward the whole column of surgeons
and physicians for the conquest of lep-
rosy and cancer
7. De WITT TALMAGE.