TY  - JOUR
T1  - MEdical progress.
Y1  - 1889/09/21
N1  - 10.1001/jama.1889.02401090018002
JO  - Journal of the American Medical Association
SP  - 414
EP  - 416
VL  - XIII
IS  - 12
N2  - 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
SN  - 0002-9955
M3  - doi: 10.1001/jama.1889.02401090018002
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.1889.02401090018002
ER  -