Forwarded from Terpgirl21769
Leprosy is a bacteria. It is a parasite. Completely treatable. They isolated people why?
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Remember...St Damien is linked to the only Historic building left standing in Lahaina...Maria Lanakila Catholic Church.
And don’t forget this...
And don’t forget this...
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Forwarded from Watch the Water (Heidi😊)
Find the historical buildings here!
Tunnels always underneath them!
Always…..
Tunnels always underneath them!
Always…..
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Have a great night everyone! Thank you all for your contributions to the digs! 🤗
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Getting back to the island of Molokai...and the leper colony that took place in the late 1800s into the 1900s.
Yesterday we showed that the children of the lepers were taken away from them and put into Adoption agencies.
Was this their motive all along? Child kidnapping?
Wait til I tell you more about leprosy and how these people got it!!
Yesterday we showed that the children of the lepers were taken away from them and put into Adoption agencies.
Was this their motive all along? Child kidnapping?
Wait til I tell you more about leprosy and how these people got it!!
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THE LEPROSY PATIENT
If the patient," he remarks, "does not die of some internal disorder or special complication, the unhappy leper becomes a terrible object to look on.
The deformed leonine face is covered with tubercles, ulcers, cicatrices, and crusts.
His sunken, disfigured nose is reduced to a stump.
His respiration is wheezing and difficult; a sanious, stinking fluid, which thickens into crusts, pours from his nostrils.
The nasal mucous membrane is completely covered with ulcerations. A part of the cartilaginous and bony framework is carious.
The mouth, throat, and larynx are mutilated, deformed, and covered, with ulcerated tubercles.
The patient breathes with the greatest difficulty. He is threatened with frequent fits of suffocation, which interrupt his sleep.
He has lost his voice, his eyes are destroyed, and not only his sight but his sense of smell and taste have completely gone.
Of the five senses hearing alone is usually preserved. In consequence of the great alterations in the skin of the limbs, which are covered with ulcerated tubercles, crusts, and cicatrices, the pachydermic state of skin which gives the limbs the appearance of elephantiasis, and of the lesions of the peripheral nerves which are present at this time, and by which occasionally the symptoms of nerve leprosy are combined with those of tubercular leprosy, the sense of touch is abolished.
The patient suffers excruciating pains in the limbs, and even in the face, whilst the ravages of the disease in his legs render walking difficult and even impossible.
From the hypertrophied inguinal and cervical glands pus flows abundantly from fistulous openings.
In certain cases the abdomen is increased in size on account of the liver, spleen, and mesenteric glands being involved. With these visceral lesions the appetite is irregular or lost.
There are pains in the stomach, diarrhoea, bronchial pulmonary lesions, intermittent febrile attacks, and a hectic state. The peculiar smell, recalling that of the dissecting room, mixed with the odour of goose’s feathers, or of a fresh corpse, is indicated, but badly described, by the authors of the Middle Ages, who compared it to that of a male goat."
If the patient," he remarks, "does not die of some internal disorder or special complication, the unhappy leper becomes a terrible object to look on.
The deformed leonine face is covered with tubercles, ulcers, cicatrices, and crusts.
His sunken, disfigured nose is reduced to a stump.
His respiration is wheezing and difficult; a sanious, stinking fluid, which thickens into crusts, pours from his nostrils.
The nasal mucous membrane is completely covered with ulcerations. A part of the cartilaginous and bony framework is carious.
The mouth, throat, and larynx are mutilated, deformed, and covered, with ulcerated tubercles.
The patient breathes with the greatest difficulty. He is threatened with frequent fits of suffocation, which interrupt his sleep.
He has lost his voice, his eyes are destroyed, and not only his sight but his sense of smell and taste have completely gone.
Of the five senses hearing alone is usually preserved. In consequence of the great alterations in the skin of the limbs, which are covered with ulcerated tubercles, crusts, and cicatrices, the pachydermic state of skin which gives the limbs the appearance of elephantiasis, and of the lesions of the peripheral nerves which are present at this time, and by which occasionally the symptoms of nerve leprosy are combined with those of tubercular leprosy, the sense of touch is abolished.
The patient suffers excruciating pains in the limbs, and even in the face, whilst the ravages of the disease in his legs render walking difficult and even impossible.
From the hypertrophied inguinal and cervical glands pus flows abundantly from fistulous openings.
In certain cases the abdomen is increased in size on account of the liver, spleen, and mesenteric glands being involved. With these visceral lesions the appetite is irregular or lost.
There are pains in the stomach, diarrhoea, bronchial pulmonary lesions, intermittent febrile attacks, and a hectic state. The peculiar smell, recalling that of the dissecting room, mixed with the odour of goose’s feathers, or of a fresh corpse, is indicated, but badly described, by the authors of the Middle Ages, who compared it to that of a male goat."
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