Fox, G: Photographic Atlas of the Diseases of the Skin, Vol.

Excerpt from Photographic Atlas of the Diseases of the Skin, Vol. 3 of 4: A Series of Ninety-Six Plates, Comprising Nearly Two Hundred Illustrations, With Descriptive Text, and a Treatise on Cutaneous Therapeutics

The mucous membrane is liable to become affected, as well as the skin. Small tubercles appear upon the velum of the palate and in the larynx, and the voice becomes husky and weak. The nasal membrane is thickened, and the patient breathes through the mouth. Nodules appear upon the conjunctiva, involve the iris, and tend to produce a partial loss of sight.

The tubercular is generally considered to be the most serious form of leprosy, and after a slow and painful course of eight or ten years the patient usually succumbs to exhaustion, or death ensues from a pneumonia or enteritis undoubtedly of leprous origin and due to morbid growths in the lungs or intestines. While this is the typical course of tubercular leprosy, it must be borne in mind that all cases are not equally severe and do not present the abhorrent symptoms commonly associated with the disease. L have known lepers whose faces were far less unsightly than the faces of patients with ordinary acne, whose suffering could not be compared with that so often occasioned by eczema, and who are now practically well, in Spite of the common statement and general belief that leprosy is an incur able disease.

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