[148] Class III., Order IV., Genus VIII. _Elephantiasis_; (1) Skin thick, livid, rugose, tuberculate; (2) Insensible to feeling; (3) Eyes fierce and staring; (4) Perspiration highly offensive. Species I. (Tubercular or Arabian Leprosy of authors.) “(1) Tubercles chiefly on the face and joints; (2) Fall of the hair except from the scalp; (3) Voice hoarse and nasal; contagious and hereditary.” Good’s _Physiological System of Medicine_ (1817), pp. 257, 258. [149] _De Causis et Signis Morborum_, p. 69. (Leipsic, edit. of 1735). [150] The disease is still designated in different parts of Asia and Africa by the same terms, more or less slightly changed. In his Travels in Africa, Egypt, and Syria (p. 332), Browne speaks of elephantiasis under the local designation of _dzudham_; Niebuhr says it is still named in Arabia and Persia _dsjuddam_ and _Madsjuddam_. (Pinkerton’s _Collection of Voyages and Travels_, vol. x. p. 170.) In Morocco it is called at the present day _Jeddem_ and _Murd Jeddem_. (Jackson’s _Account of the Empire of Morocco_.) [151] The remark in the text applies to nearly all the numerous Latin versions made from the Arabic. It is proper, however, to add, that the translator of the works of Haly Abbas has so far avoided the error alluded to, by translating the Juzam of his author by elephanta. With this single exception, the error might otherwise, I believe, be called universal. [152] The Arabians (_i.e._ the Latin translators from the Arabians), and their expositors, as was long ago remarked by Eustachius Rudius, and as has been often repeated since, “per Lepram nil aliud intelligunt præter Elephantiasim.”—_De Affectibus Externarum Corporis Humani Partium_, Venet. 1606, p. 24. [153] See Bostock’s _History of Medicine_ (New York edition of 1836), pp. 43 and 47, or chapters vi. and vii. [154] This appropriation of the single term “lepra” for the designation of Greek elephantiasis is still adhered to by some modern authors. Thus Plenck, in his celebrated _Nosology of Cutaneous Diseases_, denominates (after the example of the translators from the Arabic) the Barbadoes leg “Elephantiasis,” and applies to the Greek elephantiasis the simple term “Lepra.” Hence he defines lepra to be “that disease in which the skin, particularly of the face, becomes rugose and irregular (_aspera_), and is deformed with large reddish-livid and chinked tubercles (_rimosis tuberibus_), along with insensibility of the extremities, and the voice raucous and nasal.”—_Doctrina de Morbis Cutaneis, quâ hi morbi in suas Classes, Genera, et Species rediguntur_ (1783), p. 67. See also Schilling in his _Commentatio de Lepra_ (1778), p. 2. etc. [155] As in the works on Cutaneous Diseases by Turner (_Treatise of Diseases incident to the Skin_, 1736), p. 2; and Lorry (_Tractatus de Morbis Cutaneis_), p. 376, etc. etc.