I stutied the peripheral Nerve and skin in the various clinical phases of Leprosy examined by Mitsuda's reaktion by means of biopsy. These objects are the early stage of nodular, neural and macularr leprosy; erythema nodosum leprosum; acute infiltration; acute exacerb-ation; transitional stage from neural to nodular leprosy; obsolate neural leprosy; Mitsuda's reaction positived nodural leprosy.
The important results are following;
1. There is an intensive affinity between nervus fibers and lepra bacillus and in the extremely early stage of leprosy the bacillus exsist there: And bacillus is latent there for a long time in spite of continual treatment.
2. The histo-pathological changes on the peripheral nerve and skin are generally the same character.
3. The hito-pathological change of peripheral nerve between nodural and neural-macular leprosy is essentially different.
4. About the degeneration of the nerves fiber, I can not find difference by the lepra type.
5. I find two cases of nervus abscess in macular leprosy and one case of calcification in neural leprosy in this study.
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