[312] As in Java (Cloyer in Miscell. Naturae Curiosorum, Dec. i. Ann. 2 (1683), p. 7); Amboyna (Valentyne’s Beschreibung von Amboyna), vol. ii. p. 249. Clarke’s Observations on the Diseases of Long Voyages, vol. i. p. 128.
[313] Casan, in the Memoires de la Soc. Medicale d’Emulation, vol. v. p. 102. Hillary on Diseases of Barbadoes, p. 322. Alibert’s Monographie des Dermatoses, tom. ii. p. 289; Case from Guadaloupe. Peyssonnel’s Report on the Lepers in Guadaloupe, in Philosoph. Trans. vol. i. p. 38, etc. etc.
[314] As in Scio, according to information given me by Dr. Clarke. Howard, in his Account of the principal European Lazarettoes, mentions, p. 40, the leper hospital in Scio. Hennen, in his Medical Topography of the Mediterranean, states that elephantiasis is endemic in one small village in Cephalonia, p. 275. Savary seems to have met with several cases in the islands of the Archipelago (Letters on Greece, 1788, p. 110).
[315] It is but proper to add that the tubercular leprosy is looked upon by some pathologists as a disease not originally endemic in any part of the New World, and that it was first imported into and spread through the West Indies, etc., by subjects brought from Africa. Hillary professes himself certain upon this point. See his Observations on the Diseases of Barbadoes (1766), p. 322; and also, for the same opinion, Schilling’s Commentationes de Lepra (1778), p. 20.
[316] De Morbis Occultis, lib. i. c. 12.
[317] Observationes Chirurgicæ, lib. iv. obs. 7.
[318] Du Chesne’s Historiæ Francorum Scriptores Coaetanei, tom. v. p. 402. Joinville’s Histoire de St. Louys (1668), p. 121. Sprengel’s Histoire de Medecine, tom. ii. p. 373.
[319] Joinville, ut supra, p. 121. “A celui jour du Jeudi Saint, il lave les predz aux meseaux, et puis les baise.”
[320] Du Chesne, ut supra, tom. iv. p. 76.
[321] Historia Angliæ Major, p. 42.