The extent of the involvement and the intensity of the affection vary materially in different cases and a chronic lymphangitis may succeed the acute attacks and finally in some instances, elephantiasis results.
He shows that “elephantiasis and allied diseases are much more frequently associated with the parasite than are other morbid conditions.
Those who seek to explain away the connection between genuine elephantiasis and Filariæ will do well to study Manson’s last important memoir.
It has been noted that leprosy is frequently very common in regions where elephantiasis occurs, suggesting the possibility of the same carrier, the mosquito, for both diseases.
The most common of these is that hideous and loathsome disease known as elephantiasis in which certain parts of the patient becomes greatly swollen and distorted.
Half-way along, a limping old man whose leg was swollen withelephantiasis advanced against them.
Leprosy is not unknown among the lower classes, and elephantiasis is frequently to be met with.
The author has seen terrible cases of elephantiasis among the natives of the Samoan group of islands, where this strange and unaccountable disease is thought to have reached its most extreme and repulsive development.
Elephantiasis is indigenous, but it is not very common; the few cases seen were upon the streets, and were those of negroes who exposed their diseased limbs to excite public pity, making the affliction an excuse for systematic begging.
Dysentery is apt to attack strangers, and elephantiasis is of frequent occurrence among the natives, but it almost never appears among white people.
Elephantiasis prevails among the natives, and leprosy is by no means unknown.
In elephantiasis of the genitalia, if the disease is well advanced, excision or amputation of the parts is to be practised.
If he runs barefoot across the beach to have a swim, he will tread where an elephantiasis case trod a few minutes before.
Also, remember that diseases such as elephantiasis and leprosy do not seem to be caught by contact.
Fee-fee he had, which is the native for elephantiasis and which is pronounced fay-fay.
When you see a woman, afflicted with elephantiasis wringing out cream from cocoanut meat with her naked hands, drink and reflect how good is the cream, forgetting the hands that pressed it out.
He was certainly the ghastliest guest we ever entertained, and we've had not a few lepers and elephantiasisvictims on board.
Sad to see was theelephantiasis that afflicted some of them.
The man who seemed to be chief of the tribe provided the only case of elephantiasis remarked among these islands: it occurred with him in a very mild form--merely a slight swelling of the left leg.
Most of these people were afflicted with elephantiasis in various stages--none seriously, however.
Itch (tinea circinata tropica) is in some localities very prevalent among the natives, who are also liable to attacks of a mild form of elephantiasis throughout the Archipelago.
The elephantiasis due to filaria is spread by the agency of mosquitoes, in whose bodies the intermediate stage is passed.
The Arabian writers have described elephantiasis graecorum under the name of juzam, which their translators have rendered by the word lepra.
Scrotal tumors are recorded that weighed over 200 pounds; and a limb affected with elephantiasis may attain an astonishing size.
Alard relates as a case of elephantiasis that of a lady of Berlin, mentioned in the Ephemerides of 1694, who had an abdominal tumor the lower part of which reached to the knees.
Elephantiasis or other pathologic hypertrophy of the labial tissues can produce revolting deformity, such as is seen in Figure 100, representing an individual who was exhibited several years ago in Philadelphia.
No mention is made in the Hippocratic writings of elephantiasis graecorum, which was really a type of leprosy, and is now considered synonymous with it.
The condition commonly known as "Barbadoes leg" is a form of elephantiasis deriving its name from its relative frequency in Barbadoes.
Rayer cites two instances in which elephantiasis of the breast enlarged these organs to such a degree that they hung to the knees.
The first accurate ideas in reference to elephantiasis arabum are given by Rhazes, Haly-Abas, and Avicenna, and it is possibly on this account that the disease received the name elephantiasis arabum.
Such a case was reported by Alard, in which the elephantiasis seems to have been complicated with eczema of the ear.
The elephantiasis in this case slowly and gradually increased in size until the hand weighed 3 1/2 pounds.
Larrey mentioned a case of elephantiasis of the scrotum in which the tumor weighed over 200 pounds.
Before the time of Celsus, the poet Lucretius first speaks of elephantiasis graecorum, and assigns Egypt as the country where it occurs.
Delpech quotes a similar case ofelephantiasis in the walls of the abdomen in a young woman of twenty-four, born at Toulouse.
Maitland writes as follows [124] "Almost all the old writers on elephantiasis believed that the dark races were more susceptible to the disease than white people; but it is extremely doubtful if this is the case.
To these should be added elephantiasis (filarial disease), concerning which Surgeon-Major J.
It is also illustrated by elephantiasis involving the scrotum as a result of prolonged irritation by the urine in cases in which the penis has been amputated and the urine has infiltrated the scrotal tissues over a period of years.
Elephantiasis of Penis and Scrotum in native of Demerara.
It is commonly seen in the embryonic condition, living in the blood of patients affected with elephantiasis and certain other diseases, and is also found in the urine.
Footnote 3: Several years since, with the view of ascertaining the presence of parasitic worms, the writer examined the blood of a case of elephantiasis under the charge of T.
The Leprosy of the Middle Ages known as Elephantiasis Græcorum, Lepra Arabum, and Lepra tuberculosis, is not yet extinct.
On the other hand, in Syria, Elephantiasis Græcorum is unknown among the Jews.
The Leprosy of the Bible was Psoriasis, that of the Middle Ages Elephantiasis Græcorum.
Carter says that during a period of seventeen years, out of a very large number of cases in Bombay, he had seen only four cases, and but one death among Jews, that is of Elephantiasis Græcorum.
It is very curious that whilst Lepra Arabum is the same as Elephantiasis Græcorum or true Leprosy, the Elephantiasis Arabum is a totally distinct disease.
At midnight the man with the elephantiasis removed his pareu to free his enormous legs for dancing, and he and the others, their hands joined, moved ponderously in a tripping circle before the couch on which I lay.
The elephantiasis is not even alluded to by Moses in his descriptions of leprosy.
The elephantiasis was long confounded with leprosy; but the former is a tubercular affection of the skin, widely different from the scaly leprosy, and certainly not contagious.
According to the same writer, elephantiasis was brought to Rome by Pompey's troops.
There was no leprosy or elephantiasis here, but a great deal of tuberculosis, and very few children, and nearly all the men complained that their women were unwilling to have any more children.
Browne speaks of elephantiasis under the local designation of dzudham; Niebuhr says it is still named in Arabia and Persia dsjuddam and Madsjuddam.
Two of our last and best British nosologists give the following definition of tubercular leprosy or Greek elephantiasis (for I use these terms here and elsewhere as words perfectly synonymous).
A book on elephantiasis ascribed to him is not definitely known to be authentic.
He believed, also, thatelephantiasis was contagious.
Among our visitors today I noticed two who had large white patches on the skin, as if caused by some leprous complaint--one man had lost his nose, and in addition was affected with elephantiasis of the left foot.
