RT Journal
T1 MEdical progress.
JF Journal of the American Medical Association
JO Journal of the American Medical Association
YR 1889
FD September 21
VO XIII
IS 12
SP 414
OP 416
DO 10.1001/jama.1889.02401090018002
UL http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.1889.02401090018002
AB Acquired Leprosy, as Observed in England. 
    — Mr. Jonathan Hutchinson believes that while the possibility of contagion in leprosy is universally admitted in what may be called the abstract, it is very doubtful whether it takes an important share in the spread of the disease; thus, lupus and cancer might be transferred from one person to another, but neither is contagious in a practical sense. In Norway, India and the West Indies nurses and surgeons do not fear to come into contact with lepers for years together. So far as contagion is concerned, hundreds of surgeons daily encounter the same risks that Father Damien did, but the latter exposed himself to other dangers as well—to those of food, for example. In England the most intimate possible contact with lepers has not been sufficient in itself to communicate the disease. The varieties of leprosy are the same the world over, in