Leprosy and the Charity of the ChurchD.H. McBride & Company, 1895 - 147 pages |
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afflicted anæsthetic authorities bacillus Bishop Ropert Board of Health boys British brother Brunswick Carrasquilla Catholic CHAPTER charge Chaulmoogra oil church contagious cure disease dread duty established Father Conrardy Father Damien Father Damien's death Father Müller fingers Government hands Hawaiian Islands heroic Honolulu increase Indian inoculated Joseph Dutton Kalaupapa Kalawao lazaretto Lazarus leper asylum leper bacillus leper colony leper home Leper House leper settlement leprologists leprosy leprous letter live loathsome Louisiana Macao Madagascar malady MANGALORE Mary McDougal ment mission missionary Molokai number of lepers o'clock Ohio Orleans Orleans Charity Hospital outcast patient Paul Tulane physicians Pitkin poor Port of Spain present priest rest Sacred Heart Sandwich Islands says sent serum sick Sisters of Charity skin sores spots spread suffering thousand tion to-day toes treatment Trinidad tubercular leprosy ulcers victims women writes yellow fever York
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Page 3 - Jesus, making answer, said to them : Go and relate to John what you have heard and seen. The blind see, the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, the deaf hear, the dead rise again, the poor have the Gospel preached to them; and blessed is he that shall not be scandalized in me.
Page 65 - ... 5. Leprosy is indirectly influenced by insanitary surroundings, such as poverty, bad food, or deficient drainage or ventilation, for these by causing a predisposition increase the susceptibility of the individual to the disease.
Page 65 - ... 2. Leprosy is not diffused by hereditary transmission, and, for this reason and the established amount of sterility among lepers, the disease has a natural tendency to die out. " 3. Though in a scientific classification of diseases leprosy must be regarded as contagious, and also inoculable, yet the extent to which it is propagated by these means is exceedingly small. " 4. Leprosy is not directly originated by the use of any particular article of food, nor by any climatic or telluric conditions,...
Page 91 - Sliding its snow-white And swift avalanches: Where the sails pass O'er an ocean of glass, Or trail their dull anchors Down in the sea-grass. Where the hills smoulder; Where the plains smoke ; Where the peaks shoulder The clouds like a yoke ; Where the dear isle Has a charm to beguile, As she lies in the lap Of the seas that enfold her. Where shadows falter; Where the mist hovers Like steam that covers Some ancient altar.
Page 20 - Hospital ordered before him the brothers who had outraged the Crusaders, and to punish them, conrepresented to him, that always having had, from their foundation, a leprous knight for grand-master, they found themselves in the impossibility of electing one, because the infidels had killed all the leprous knights of their hospital at Jerusalem. For this reason, they prayed the pontiff to allow them to elect, for the future, as grand-master, a knight who had not been attacked by leprosy, and who might...
Page 20 - Bach, and others, it has been averred that the leprosy of the Middle Ages was introduced from the East by those who returned from the Crusades, though the disease was not unknown on the continent at an earlier period; and there were two lazar-houses at Canterbury during the reign of William the Conqueror, seven years previous to the first Crusade.
Page 65 - ut generis ; it is not a form of syphilis or tuberculosis, but has striking etiological analogies with the latter. " 2. Leprosy is not diffused by hereditary transmission, and for this reason and the established amount of sterility amongst lepers the disease has a natural tendency to die out
Page 21 - IV., in his bull of the year 1565, so extended and so favourable to the order of St. Lazarus, by which he renews all the privileges and all the gifts that his predecessors had granted to it, and gives it fresh ones.
Page 88 - For some persons, at the first, had rather die than be unchaste or perjured; and 'greater love than this no man hath, that he lay down his life...
Page 73 - And there was a certain beggar named Lazarus, who lay at his gate, full of sores, desiring to be filled with the crumbs that fell from the rich man's table, and no one did give him ; moreover the dogs came and licked his sores.