| Description Of Item | Four page article in two parts written by Deputy Surgeon-General W. Johnston, India Medical Department, Southern District, Malabar and Canara, Madra Presidency. The article outlines the symptoms of leprosy as it progresses and the observations of using vaporised carbolic acid as a treatment for leprous ulcers in the case of a 12-year-old boy. ‘To be continued’ at the end of the second part of the article. From the collection of Thomas Laycock. |