The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1904-04-26
FISH THEORY OF LEPROSY
CONTINUED from page three.


ceedngy like that of tuberculosis SO far trustworthy observation
has yet gone cannot be kept alive cultivated outside the humar
body can be conveyed animals 1t is further highly probable
that cannot be transferred from by touch by breath
nor even by incubation whether accidental Intentional Certain
in
the stomach of healthy pesonhat is by food contaminated by
per hand might produce the disease This special kind Of risk Is
however of but and encountered almost solely by
infants nursed by eprou mothers and by young children who
accept food directly from the hands Of epers It is not one to who
grownp persons likely exposed unless exceptionally careless
feeding for the eproy bacillus appears to have but low vitality
and does not survive long after removal from its host
1t is, perhaps scarcely needfu recapuae facts dis
ants in leper asums do not contract it. husband and wife rv seldom
suffer the time subjects freely brought
prou districts he Continent England the United States etc.,
although precautions may observed the spreads
During the last always
pers Imported residing in France England and other countries
apparently without any risk to the community
The evidence which cposy with bad fish
ready admitted OF an neenta cumstanal kind but d
suggested that quite strong convicted
Tchbone claimant perjury nearly strong that which very
properly sent the Moa Farm murderer the gaows It
paed and needs for its estimation longer and closer attentions but
given scarcely less conclusive possibility
that other than the Dougal fired the shot for which he
hung there possibility the eating decomposng
fish the ordinary of eposy but that all that can be said
in either
stage of civilization there is an actual preference for
in tainted condition.
The testimony parts supports
statement 1t would appear however that it an acquired or cuv
ed taste like that for high and that be lost succeed
ed by definite aversion.
This revon of taste has long ago happily passed over the greater
Europe including British Isles In regions would
in the present day be mpobecven there sanitary inspect
orso dispose of sinking fish but was not so in the Middle AGES
and is fishing stations instance,
Norway Iceland or Tracad In the places named tainted fish is
still by preferred fresh and eprosy still prevails
There good hope that got rid this perverson of
taste not likely and in this rests OF our chief hopes for
the extinction of eprosy
Before the days of railways before good roads and fast coaches
fairly general game both vensOn and BIRDS from the
distant Scotland Yorkshire sporting districts
born
Owing very transportation the shooting
autumn and than other time the year, the game
high by the time delivered And in this condition eaten
and so the taste for acquired, !
Now that game be brought fresh from the parts
the United Kingdom of the towns the for high has
almost entirely died The may apply fish going
sell tainted fish today inland town. but extracts from Erasmus
recently printed in the London Times bear testimony the appetite
for offensive fish which existed in England in the sixteenth century
Let me glance in the brees possible terms the facts
o. In almost all countries and fish food has under
popular suspicion.
e. Every which has been made supposed conuaon
has been dproved
g. No other explanation prevalence can be
acquainted with the facts
a. We have dismissed disproven conagon and
the fish hypothesis stands alone
o. From many regions formerly prevailed
has wholly disappeared and this has
povemen in agriculture and the comparative dsuse fish food;
assisted not niequcnty by change OF religious creed
co. AT the time it be that all the region
where the disease either remarkably persistent excessively preva
lent are either fishing cener under the influence Of Roman
GU The appears to increa
very remarkably the prevalence OF eprosy although all other
muniy concerned
g. In India those who profess vegeaanm almost wholly
free, those with whom indifference moderate
degree and those who observe sheag fast
excess.
o. In India while the general prevalence only three four per
10000 it rises the Island of Mncoy, which devoted fishing
to 800 and in Kaigoan which also 6hcurng 500
Go) In several places Cape Colony the Sandwich Islands, etc.
the outbreak of pro followed directly the introduction Of fish
curing.
GD In other places tradition credits the introduction Of the dis
ease to Catholic missionaries and sometimes the States of Colon
ba asserts that a priest the first victim
(I2) Father Damen only among many which have
occurred in which Catholic priests living eprosy districts and eating
the fish OF the country, have themselves become lepe
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