ON THE DISEASES COMMON TO AND CLINICAL FINDINGS OF THE CONSTITUTIONS PECULIAR TO THE CHILDREN OF LEPROUS PARENTS

Abstract

The present paper is based upon the observations of children in the homes where non-leprous children of leprous parents are accomodated. It is a common finding that the skin of these children are very dry and coarse, which are more marked on the palms and soles. This is apparently due to the inactivities of the sebacious glands of skin. Another peculiarity common to these children is the enlargements of tonsils and adenoids. In the majority of the children in our homes these glands show marked hypertrophy. It has been reported that in the leprous children and youths the involvements of the mucous membrane of mouth and the upper respiratory tracts are very common, but the tonsils are not the primary sites of the attack of leprous organisms although they are usually very much enlarged. Whether or not the tonsils are the first sites of the invasion of the organism remain for further study. But the clinical findings of the enlargements of tonsils of all the non-leprous children are very interesting