1903.] ASHMEAD—HUACOS POTTERIES OF OLD PERU. 3885 
of leprosy.’’. ‘‘ There are no tubercles on it,’’ he said, ‘and no 
phenomena of anesthesia.’’ 
This photograph has always appeared to me as if the person it 
represents might have been mutilated by a surgeon’s knife for 
lupus. 
Figure 6, 
Dr. Ugaz, the best authority in Peru to-day on this last-named 
disease, concludes an interesting article, ‘‘ Etiologia topografia y 
tratamiento de la Uta (lupus),’’ as follows: ‘‘ Uta (gallico, llaga, 
Ilianya, tiacarafia, Qquespo Spondyle) of Peru is bacillary tuber- 
culosis, generally localized in the uncovered parts of the skin 
(tuberculo-derma), and its ov/y treatment is endermic and surgica/.’’ 
My own conclusion is that this Uta, gallico, llaga, etc. = pre- 
Columbian lupus (with or without complication with syphilis), is 
the disease represented on the huacos potteries, for some of those 
specimens represent the effects of the surgical treatment of that dis- 
ease, the cutting off of nose and upper lip. 
It is highly probable that some of the deformations of those 
ancient Peruvian figures were intended to represent lupus and 
syphilis combined and not leprosy. For, as I said, Ancon, the 
pre-Columbian graveyard of Old Peru, was also the place of baths 
where the ‘‘ luposos and sarnosos ’’ congregated for curaiive treat- 
‘ment. 
Had Ancon been a resort for lepers, somewhere in an European 
or American Museum we should be able to discover a mummy show- 
ing loss of fingers or toes, for most lepers are thus mutilated. But, 
