Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 September 1890 — A Leprous Princess in Paris. [ARTICLE]

A Leprous Princess in Paris.

The London leper has caused quite a scare, I have no doubt that there has always been lots of leprosy in tho world, but that we know nothing about it, because tho doctors give it a fine Greek name. Why not translate all the new Greek names of diseases into graphic English? If there was a descriptive name that we could understand for every malady, a long 6tep would be taken towards curing them. What meaning for instance, doos tho word eczema convey to the unlearned mind? Whenever I hear doctors giving evidence to a jury, I feel as if they were talking in a foreign language, which nobody but themselves can understand. It would perhaps startle the world to hear that the Prince ot Wales’ leper could find his match in a palace in this city, whore there is a leper high and mighty from a heraldic standpoint. She is on kissing terms with our royalties. This illustrious person has been nearly twenty years attacked with the disease, which is kept in subjection by careful daily treatment. 1 never heard that she had given it to any one. There is, however, no doubt whatever as to the nature of her affection. . They say that the primary cause of leprosy in her case was the consanguine marriages of her ancestors.—Paris Letter to London Truth.