AND LOWER EGYPT. IO9 



Whilst I am on the subject of one of the most 

 horrible maladies with which humanity can be 

 afflicted, and that I may no more return to it, I 

 will addj that I had occasion to see besides, in 

 Thebai's, two persons eaten up by another species 

 of leprosy, which I have since met with in the isle 

 of Scio, where it is more common than the ordi- 

 nary leprosy, that of the Jews, and which the 

 Greeks call lo--cia. Those who are attacked with it 

 have a hoarse voice ; they are tormented with a 

 cough, their eyebrows disappear ; large fleshy 

 blisters display themselves over all the body ; the 

 nerves contract, and the hands and feet shrink in 

 an extraordinary manner, but the joints of the 

 fingers do not fall off as in the leprosy of the 

 ioints. It is probable that this species of leprosy 

 is that which Hillary has distinguished under the 

 denomination of the leprosy of the Arabs *. It is 

 not uncommon in the East ; but is not considered, 

 like the first sort, as very contagious. I observed 

 at Scio, that they did not separate from society 

 the sick persons whom it had attacked. 



These same patients are not besides tormented 

 with the same desires as the other lepers with re- 

 spect to the mechanism of love. It is from not 

 having paid sufficient attention to the different 

 species of leprosies, and to the divers symptoms 



* See the work before quoted. 



which 



