[302] Schilling, De Lepra, p. 20. Stedman’s Narrative of Five Years’ Expedition in Surinam (1796), vol. ii. p. 285.
[303] Bajon’s Memoires pour servir à l’Histoire de Cayenne, etc., vol. i. p. 237. Bancroft’s Natural History of Guiana, p. 385.
[304] Winterbottom’s Account of the Native Africans in Sierra Leone, vol. ii. p. 113.
[305] F. Moore’s Travels into the Inland parts of Africa (1738), p. 130. Mungo Park found the disease among the Mandingoes.—(See Pinkerton’s Collection, vol. xvi. p. 877.)
[306] Whitelaw Ainslie, in the Transactions of the Royal Asiatic Society, vol. i. (1824), p. 282. Robinson, in the London Medico-Chirurgical Transactions, vol. x. (1819), p. 27.
[307] Pococke’s Description of the East, vol. ii. p. 122; or Pinkerton’s Collection, vol. x. p. 502.
[308] Voyages de Pallas en differentes Provinces de Russie (Paris, edit. of 1769), vol. i. pp. 651 and 659.
[309] Ulloa’s Voyage to South America (London, edit. of 1762), vol. i. p. 45, etc. Ulloa states that, at the time of his visit to Carthagena, all the lepers of the place were confined in the hospital of San Lazaro, and if any refused to go, they were forcibly carried thither. The hospital consisted of a number of cottages, and the ground on which it stood was “surrounded by a high wall, and had only one gate, and that always carefully guarded.”
[310] My friend, Dr. Cheyne, lately of San Luis, informs me that the hospital of San Lazaro, in the city of Mexico, is set aside for the reception of cases of tubercular leprosy.
[311] As in Ceylon (Marshall’s Medical Topography of Ceylon, p. 43); Mauritius (Kinnis in Edin. Med. and Surg. Journal, vol. xxii. p. 286); Madagascar (Narrative of Madagascar Mission, pp. 208 and 191). I am informed by Dr. Shortt that one of the group of the Sechelle Islands is used as a leper station. See further Crawford’s History of the Indian Archipelago (Edinburgh, 1820), vol. i. p. 34.