Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1894-08-18

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sent to the so called isle of rrecipices"
the moral leper IL not 80 easily desis-
mated, because he has the blotch not 50
much en- his forehead as on his heert
What every stato and nation now needs
is Mololch, Or Isle of lepeu.
LesEosy Diagnosed
Conversation about lepposy With q
former member Of the board Of health
for the Hawaiian Islands revealed to me
tho following facts:
Question-ln what part Of the system
does leproSy begin ita work?
Answor-It attacks the nerye centars.
Oh Thought lie was disease Of tho
bfooM
A.-No 1t begins with tho nerves
and Just as che girdNng Of too trunk Of
o tree first shows its withering resutts
In the eip end Of tie long branch q the
tree SO leprosy is first apt to show itself
in the paralysis On doubling up Of tho
little finger, or in the toe or IN tho loho
Of the ear. Sometimes there appears up
on the body a shining surface, and it Is
untmpressiblo. Prick 1t with pin. and
there Is I'D sting All the reet Of the
PATIENTS body may be in perspiratton,
but that spot remains dry. 6omottmes
all tho signs Of physical disorder dtsap.
pear, and the disease seems gone Then
there will come o ieprous 9ever, and that
will throw out blush on efloresconco
that more elnphaticsally announces tho
progress Of the disease. Then Gil signs
Of skin disturbance disappear, but after
the following laprous fever Che case IS
worse than before 20 each retreat Of
the disease Is followed by moo DO
clded advance.
Q-Is 1t painful?
A.-No. That is ono Of tho rneroiea
From tho first assault Of the plague to
the hour Of death there is an absence OF
physical suffering.
Q--Dut is there no mental depres-
stony
A-oh. yes! At the first acquaint~
apce of the fact that the disease Is on
him o horrid gloom eetties upon the
patient but after awhile slight hope
Of recovery ts born, and the incipient
leper tries oil forms Of cure, and no
form "a 80 Gbsurd that viii not recon-
mend itself as worthy Of experiment
And then ell tho time the patient thinks
it Is something besides leproV.
Q-When o victim Of the disease Is
first charged with having the plague, !
should think he would resent it?
Ayes, end the English law makes
it libelous case for the courts II man
Is urjustly charged with being aper.
Boards OF health have 20 be very Conc
full IN the work of segregation.
No Cure Now Known Tor tho Plague.
Q.-Are there any cases Of cure2
A.-The only cases ! recall are those
mentioned in tho Bible-Naaman. the
Syrian hero, and the 10 cases that Christ
cared, nine Of them too mean to &C.
knowledge the divine medicament
Q.-What IN ordinary cases is the
velocity of tho disease and how long
before 1t completes Its workP
A-Well, have known one case TO
last l6 years Think the usual DURANGO
Is FIVE OF six yeara.
Q.-Gas the leprosy different nodns
In demonstrating Itself?
At has The tuberculous and tho
anasthetio The former Is most rcput
sive 1t swells and bioats and distorts
the fssoa The last sign Of humanity is
blotted from the countenance. There
are cases OF this Lind called "loonine,e
for the reason that the face IS SO wid,
ened and enlarged and made severe that
the countenance looks like lion The
anasthetic form is whitening. o thin.
ming out wasting away, o depletion,
skeletonizing process
Q-Is 1t contagious?
A-Thera are different opinions
about that have seen In married life
the husband On wife @ leper for years
and the partner IN life always IN good
health I have known leprous parent
to have healthy child. was talking
Oh this subject with an eminent physi.
CLAN, who said to me: DO you 500 those
two children playing togetherf The ono
Is lepcr and the other my own child.
and ! have no fear ebout contamtna-
tion. e"
Q.-How many patients are there IN
Molokai OF the present timer
A.-About 1000
Here ended my conversation with tho
former member OF The board Of health
Of the Sandwich Islands Up to date
the 800 goes on. Only two weeks ago a
ship took 25 more lepera to NolokaA
The scene of parting Is said to be 80
heartrending THAI but few people go 20
the wharf to witness It The wa!ling
and bowling at The parting Of families
Us the fltal and fretornal and paternal
and maternal bonds Gre broken is some
thing that haunts the memory. Not long
ago o young man sentenced to the lepor
island declared be would not be taken
alive he shot three Of those who wcre
attempting to segregato him and then
hid In u hut until cannon on neigh
boring hill bonbarded the hut into o
wreck. Then relative went to tho hut
and found the young man dead
But do not let as give mp discouraged
Leprosy as well es cancer and all too
otheg unoonQueped ailments will yet be
CURED ! do not know where tho cradle
now holding the coming doctor Is being
rocked whether at Molokai, or IN Hon
olulu, or On the banks Of the Thames
OF tho Rhine, OF the Tfber, or tho Oval,
o. the Hudson, pr tho Savannah, par 90
/ know from what college he will nm
Toll his diploma nor in what laboratory
he Will mako his experiments nor n
what decade be Will give prool0aaahon
Of the worlds emancipation from
diseases as yet incurable, but ho will
go through the some prosecutions that
Dr.. Jenper did because Of his dis
coTery Of way 10 halt smallpox, and
as Dr.. Kelley has endured because Of
bis almost supernatural cure Of aloohoA-
Ism, and the new discovery Will run
tsea oaDhIf,t o7 certcature aud expulsion