LEPROSY 55 



no reason for thinking that it develops from deep breathing in of the 

 bacillus, because the lungs are never primarily involved. 



The possibility of the transmission of the disease through the 

 agency of insects has been considered, but its wide geographical dis- 

 tribution does not render this view probable. The relation of fish diet 

 to leprosy, so earnestly advocated by the late Jonathan Hutchinson, has 

 not found wide support. 



