01198nam a2200121   4500000000100000008004100001260001400042100001300056245005800069250001600127520091500143020001801058       1989                            d  bRoutledge1 aGussow Z00aEndemicity in the United States: Leprosy in Louisiana  a1st Edition3 a<p>The Spaniards who ruled over the Colony of Louisiana in the late eighteenth century had a long career of trafficking in African slaves. The slave trade attuned Spanish physicians and surgeons serving in the Spanish West Indies to what Captain Bernard Romans called "the chronic disease amongst the blacks ... the leprosy, so-called." The disease was also known to the Spaniards of the time as "body yaws," "elephantiasis," and the "lame distemper."&nbsp;&nbsp;Included were a wide assortment of visible and deforming neurological and dermatological conditions, among them afflictions variously recorded as the Barbadoes leg, scrotal tumor, syphilis vel lues aethiopica, sympathic hypertrophy or varix of the lymphatics, syphilis africana, pian, lepra tuberculosa, epian, and elephantiasis arabium. All of these conditions were seemingly bound together by a common unpleasantness of physical appearance</p>
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