This Article  • Full text PDF  • Send to a friend  • Save in My Folder  • Save to citation manager  • Permissions  Citing Articles  • Contact me when this article is cited  Related Content  • Similar articles in this journal  Social Bookmarking   What's this?

By Jesús González Urueña. Pp. 793, with 13 pages of indexes. Buenos Aires, Argentina: El Ateneo, 1941.

Arch Derm Syphilol. 1942;45(5):1035.

	Since this article does not have an abstract, we have provided the first 150 words of the full text PDF and any section headings.

In a large volume Dr. Urueña reviews and classifies more than two hundred articles published mostly by Mexican authors concerning different aspects of leprosy in Mexico.

The importance of this study is evident. There were 5,145 cases of leprosy registered between 1936 and 1938. The author states that it would not be an exaggeration to consider that the number of cases might be as high as 15,000. Only Brazil and Colombia show a larger number of cases in this hemisphere.

The history from the days before the conquest, statistics, clinical descriptions, prognosis, diagnosis and treatment are extensively discussed.

Most interesting are the chapters on ocular manifestations and leprosy in children. A painstaking study is made of the prophylaxis, and the text of laws concerning the disease is given. The twenty-one dispensaries distributed over the country especially equipped for diagnosis and treatment are enumerated. The three leprosariums, at Pénjamo, Sarabia and . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

CiteULike    Connotea    Del.icio.us    Digg    Reddit    Technorati    Twitter     What's this?