LEPROSY OF THE EAR, NOSE AND THROAT: OBSERVATIONS ON MORE THAN TWO HUNDRED CASES IN HAWAII

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While leprosy doubtless existed a long time prior to any record of the disease, the earliest extant account describes its occurrence among Negro slaves in Egypt about 1300 B. C.1 After a European conquest by the peoples of Asia and Africa in 500 B. C. leprosy became known to the Greeks. Four hundred years later the disease was increasingly found in other countries of Europe. It is known to have reached England as early as 800 A. D. Shortly afterward, Iceland and Scotland became infected; then Norway, Greenland, Sweden and the Russian seacoast. By 1000 A. D. leprosy was known to practically all European countries. According to history, the disease was most prevalent between the twelfth and fourteenth centuries after which it began to decline, although at present it probably is to be found in greater or lesser numbers in every country on earth. Rogers and Muir said

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