The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1894-06-18
DR.. aoTo's WORK
Opinions Of a Noted japanese spe-
cialist in Matters Of Leprosy.

cialist in Matters Of Leprosy.
BY ALBERT $. AsmMEAD. NJ. D., NEW
YORK.
(COntinUcd.)
Dedih by DiurrbTa 1t is not so
quick as it is in contagious dyson
terry. The purging is not SO fire.
quent; at first two or three times a
day; afterwards ) q to 1918 times.
After a couple Of weeks the body
loses strength, mental powers, fail the
patient falls into melancholy; he
expresses great snxiety about his
appetite, which is declining; be tries
in vain to get some food that he can
enjoy; but whatever he eats only in
creases the purging. The stools are
painless; they are watery and OF Of
fensive odor. When these condi-
tions have continued for some weeks
the patient is exhausted aud dies.
His hands and legs. in his last mo-
ments, are exceedingly cold.
Dcdth by Debjijiy. The debility is
not always the effect OF the disease;
it is often due to- injudicious treat
, mept. There is q worthless old the
thod called the reducing treat ment,
in which fat. flesh, fish, and rice are
all prohibited. or course such
treat ment is essentially wrong, IL, as
the author teaches, leprosy is the
result Of deficiency Of blood. The
disease itself has tendency to
diminish the strength Of its victims.
The process Of emaciatiun continues
until death.
Complications sf Leprosy. --lufam.
nation OF brain and OF the throat,
fevers, syphilis, the two latter are
the most dangerous. Fever causes
death rapidly; syphilis also makes a
quick end Of the patient. Lepers
should always be careful not to con.
tract syphilis. Stomach diseases are
also complications, chronic cat arrh
especially. which depresses the
strength.
Treatment 1t is based on two
principles: first. To improve the
blood; second, to cure the accom-.
panyiug morbid conditions.
The hygi.nic means and he secret
remedies used are those employed
by the authors father. Four kinds
al medicine are used; the first is the
invention Of the authors hospital
aud is called the king Of medicines;
/ the other three are called subjects,
or ministcriug medicines. The first
is given inwar,lly, the second is
/ .yt. Ia. ant A. ....s
for both dry and wet lrprosy. Half
years treatment, the author is con.
/ iident, will effect a cure. though a
years trcatm rut is earnestly recon
mend.d. Let Us observe here that
Goto claims for his nostru q super.
natural power, and he congrat ulatss
the present generation Of lcpers for
living ia his own times. Let them
not let this precious opportunity
slip by.
The wet form is easicr Ia cure
than the dry. Oil plas,ers are ap.
Piled tn the spots, and IL tumefac-
ton and stretched feeling aud heat
come on. all treat in.ut must be-
stopped, u u great deal Of inilam.
nation arises. apply cold cloths.
Dry leprusy il slower III progress
and also al cure. lronwater is re-.
commended To strengthen the body,
lectricity for paralysis, massage for
the muscular airophy. The falling
OF the hairs is, OF course, incurable,
as the hair-bulbs are destroyed.
Chronic crooking Of the fingers il
likewise difficult To remedy. Forci-
bio extension is thought useful.
Most persons who have died in his
hospital ended with drop,y lie,
therefore, considers dropsy ~ the
most dangerous symptom. Purying,
also, is very dangerous, because Il
resists both opium and taunin
In the second volume Goto gives
some advice a. 10 tho use of tn.
remedies which he olT"rs To those
who will have confidence in him.
They consist 81 pills, medicatrd
baths, powders, one Of which j. to
be boiled in water. Other reln-dies
are purges, plastcrs aud pills. which
he calls assistant remedies. OF these
latter there is second series, con.
sisting in iron water, iron pills,
! stomach remedies, and diurctics.
or course, rs We have already said,
what the remedy really is he does
not reveal, enunerating in these
lines only its different forms and
applications.
HHgienic ms'hmds First, maitary
CONDITION Of dwshiHg place. l.et the
Japanese initiate in this the Western
people, that they improve their
houses as much as possible. Dis
eases, closely allied with the condi-
tions Of living places, are those OF
the lungs, OF the womb, aud beri.
beri aud leprosy, Leprosy is mainly
a disease OF hot countries, rare in
cold climates; ii is, therefore, rea-
sonable to assume that the heat is
favorable To this disease, and
that cold is contrary to it,.
Hence il seems clear that cold
should be employed in the cure.
Although heat is etiologically con.
nected with leprosy, yet it does not
make the cases Of leprosy worse,
when they once exist, while cold,
which is unfavorable to the forma-
ti0n OF the disease, has a very bad
! effect on the condition Of IN. Ieuers