BOOKS CONSULTED. THE following is a list of the principal Authors whose works have been consulted: HENSLER, Leprosy of the Middle Ages.' AUGUST HIRSCH, 'Handbuch der Historisch-Geographischen Pathologie.' Berlin: 1860. D. C. DANIELSSEN, M.D., 'The Spedalsk Disease: its Causes and Means of Prevention.' Bergen: 1854. D. C. DANIELSSEN and C. W. BOECK, 'On Spedalskhed.' Christiania: 1847. 'Report on Leprosy.' By the Royal College of Physicians. 1867. JOHN MASON GOOD, 'Study of Medicine.' 1822. J. Y. SIMPSON, M.D., Antiquarian Notes on Leprosy and Leper Hospitals in Scotland and England.' ་ SPRENGEL, History of Medicine.' Rev. L. J. DEBES, 'Account of the Feroe Islands.' J. S. in 1676. Englished by GAVIN MILROY, M.D., 'Report on Leprosy and Yaws in the West Indies.' 1873. H. V. CARTER, M.D., 'On the Symptoms and Morbid Anatomy of Leprosy. With Remarks.' Transactions of Medical and Physical Society of Bombay. 1862. H. V. CARTER, M.D., 'Report on Leprosy in the Bombay Presidency. Based on the Returns of 1867.' 1872. JOHN STOW'S 'Survey of the Cities of London and Westminster.' ARTHUR S. THOMSON'S 'Remarks on the Customs and Diseases of the New Zealanders.' Medico-Chirurgical Review. April 1854. BATES, The Naturalist on the Amazon.' 1863. ARNOT'S History of the City of Edinburgh.' 1779. G. WHITE, Natural History of Selborne.' Various books of travels, especially those of MOORE, PARK, and BRUCE. The writings of WILSON, HUTCHINSON, VIRCHOW, HEBRA, and many others. ELEPHANTIASIS GRÆCORUM 34 CHAPTER I. HISTORY OF LEPROSY DURING THE MIDDLE AGES. ELEPHANTIASIS GRÆCORUM, or true Leprosy, is a disease that has existed from pre-historic times down to the present day, and has been aptly described by a traveller of the seventeenth century as a distemper so noisome, that it might well pass for the utmost corruption of the human body, on this side the grave.' Leprosy may be briefly defined as an incurable constitutional disease of adult life, which is especially prevalent in tropical and sub-tropical countries. It is met with in three principal forms: First. Macular Leprosy, characterised by an eruption on the skin, accompanied by anesthesia. Secondly. Anæsthetic Leprosy, of which the chief features are anesthesia and discolourations of the skin, and atrophy of the muscles, with ulceration and mutilation of the hands and feet. B |