Lepra

However, he described modern psoriasis under the term lepra vulgaris, which perpetuated confusion of psoriasis and leprosy. ❋ Unknown (2008)

I found in this hut a few persons who were suffering from the eruption called "lepra," a disease but too commonly met with in Iceland. ❋ Ida Pfeiffer (1827)

Yet I did not see a single case of true lepra Arabum, or its modifications, the huge Barbadoes leg (elephantiasis), and the sarcoma scrotale and sarcocele of Zanzibar and East Africa. ❋ Unknown (2003)

If a 'lepra reaction' (fever, a rash, pain and perhaps swelling of hands and feet, or eye damage) occurs or gets worse while taking the medicine, keep taking it but get medical help. ❋ Unknown (1993)

In case of a severe 'lepra reaction' (pain along the nerves, numbness or weakness, eye irritation, or painful testicles), it is usually best to keep taking the leprosy treatment, but to also take an anti-inflammatory medicine (cortico-steroid). ❋ Unknown (1993)

Mexican villagers call any open spreading sore lepra. ❋ Unknown (1993)

Note: The larger dose of clofazimine, which can also be used daily to control lepra reaction, is best given with the advice of an experienced health worker or doctor. ❋ Unknown (1993)

Although it is less effective in killing leprosy bacteria than rifampin, it has the advantage that it also helps to control lepra reaction to some extent, particularly in persons with lepromatous leprosy ❋ Unknown (1993)

More than 1,115 lepra-like bacilli were counted in a single fly-speck. ❋ Rennie Wilbur Doane (N/A)

The plan proved quite successful in curing obstinate lepra. ❋ William Thomas Fernie (N/A)

Considered generally, the _Galium aparine_ exercises acid, astringent, and diuretic effects, whilst it is of [234] special value against epilepsy, and cancerous sores, as already declared; being curative likewise of psoriasis, eczema, lepra, and other cutaneous diseases. ❋ William Thomas Fernie (N/A)

A long chapter, entitled "_De infectione post coitum leprosi_," discusses the transmission of the disease by means of sexual intercourse, and suggests the possible confusion of lepra and syphilis. ❋ Henry Ebenezer Handerson (N/A)

Gilbert's discussion of leprosy (_De lepra_, f. 336 d) covers twenty pages and, according to Sprengel, is "almost the first correct description of this disease in the Christian West." ❋ Henry Ebenezer Handerson (N/A)

In another (Elizabeth Alford) lepra affected the extensor surfaces of the thoracic and pelvic limbs. ❋ St. George Mivart (N/A)

Any out-patients 'room will furnish abundant instances of exact symmetry in the eruptions of eczema, lepra, and psoriasis; in the deformities of chronic rheumatism, the paralyses from lead; in the eruptions excited by iodide of potassium or copaiba. ❋ St. George Mivart (N/A)

(Num., xix); (5) "De lepra", on Leprosy, to Sistelius, a dialogue between Eubulius (Methodius) and Sistelius on the mystic sense of the ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)

His chief special studies are concerned with itch, lepra, and eczema. ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)

For a number of valuable special investigations we are indebted to Tilbury Fox (1836-79; impetigo contagiosa, dermatitis herpetiformis), and on lepra to D.C. Daniellssen (1815-94) and Karl Wilhelm Boeck (1808-75). ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)

This name is from the Greek lepra, by which the Greek physicians designated the disease from its scaliness. ❋ M.G. Easton (1897)

The Arabian writers have described elephantiasis græcorum under the name of juzam, which their translators have rendered by the word lepra. ❋ Unknown (1896)

jebele: dude your [tires] are [slashed]! [valentin]: well... it must be the lepra! what can you do about it?! jebele: i hate those lepras! ❋ Jebele (2006)