1841-42

James Simpson’s series of articles in Edinburgh Med. & Surg. Journal, argues that the leprosy of the ancient and medieval periods was identical to that of the present, and that “the elephantiasis of the Greeks, the Arabic juzam, the lepra of the Latin translators, the simple leprosy of the Middle Ages and the tubercular leprosy of modern European medicine once more become one and the same disease” (Edmond, 40).