Identifier: canadianjournalo05torouoft (find matches)
Title: The Canadian journal of medicine and surgery
Year: 1897 (1890s)
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Subjects: Medicine Surgery
Publisher: Toronto
Contributing Library: Gerstein - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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Pig. 3. MEDICINE AND SURGERY. 149 read a letter of Dr. Ashineads, d;ited 26th of March, in which this gentlemaninformed him that he was a student of pre-Columbian leprosy in America, andcalled our attention to some earthen vessels which had been found along withmummies in old Peruvian graves. He declares that he could neither afhrmnor admit that the mutilations of the human forms represented in them arenecessarily or probably the work or the consequence of leprosy. He asks forthe opinion of Mr. Yirchow about them. Mr. Virchow declared hereupon thatneither in the bones nor in the mummies of Peru, or of other (jarts of America,had he seen alterations whicli might have suggested the idea of leprosy. Hesaid further that he had seen no proofs so far of pre-Colum))ian syphilis.
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Fig. 4. In the meeting of the 18th of May, 1895, Prof. Bastian reverted to thisquestion, and presented two of the Peruvian vases from the Berlin Museum.But Mr. Bastian does not express any opinion as to the meaning of these vases.On the other hand, Mr. Virchow remarked that these clay figures representedcertainly pathological conditions ; the head makes you think of leprosy, but itmight also be syphilis. Mr. Virchow then speaks of the spreading of syphilis.He asks for more thorough searching in our collections, and assures us that sofar the collections have furnished no proofs for leprosy or syphilis in 23re-Columbian times. In the meeting of the Lepra Conference of 13th of October, 1897, Mr. Vir-chow presented a rather large number—about ten—of these Peruvian clayvessels, and referred in his speech to a rather voluminous manuscript on this 50 THE CANADIAN JOURNAL OF question sent by Dr. Ashmead. I think I may assume tliat Mr. Yirchowreferred to the manuscript which is printed in

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