Preface. 



Aly interest in the neurological aspect of leprosy was first aroused 

 some years ago on a series of cases being referred to me for neurological 

 examination. 



In this little book I have tried as briefly as possible to give a complete 

 picture of the neurological side of leprosy from the clinical point of view. 

 Besides what little purely scieyitific value m}^ book may have, I venture 

 to hope that it may also have some practical value in helping colleagues 

 in some cases to make an earlier diagnosis of the disease. Neurologists 

 may perhaps find a few explanations superfluous to them. But the book 

 is not written for neurologists only. I have also had in view a wider and 

 more practical aim, which I did not want to sacrifice by omitting these, 

 perhaps a little elementary, neurological explanations. 



I have to thank Professor Bruusgaard and Dr. H. P. Lie for their 

 kind help and for permission to examine and re-examine their patients. 



My examinations have not all been quite so complete as I should 

 wish. Some of the older patients have been such bad witnesses that reliable 

 results of the sensory examination could not be obtained. At the leprosy 

 hospitals in Bergen the necessary appliances for electrical examination do 

 not yet exist. Therefore in the majority of these cases I have not been 

 able to carry out the electrical examination. Yet I hope that in all other 

 respects my observations have been both sufficiently complete and numerous 

 to warrant the correctness of my conclusions. 



