The modern history of tubercular leprosy would seem to show that the disease attacks the male in a larger proportion than the female sex. From the table which Dr. Adams collected and published of patients admitted into the leper-house of Funchal, Madeira,[261] from 1702 to 1803, it appears that during that period 526 infected males were admitted into the hospital, while the corresponding list of infected females amounts only to 373. The enumeration of the lepers in the Glasgow leper hospital in 1589,[262] and those entered into the Greenside hospital of Edinburgh in 1591 (the only two old lists of patients of such institutions in Britain that I am acquainted with), show the diseased inmates of these two establishments to have been all males. A large proportion of the English lazar-houses seem, from the language of their charters, to have been endowed entirely for males (_fratres leprosi_), but, at the same time, we have abundant evidence in the same documents that females often suffered from the disease.[263] Some of the lazar-houses were founded and endowed for admitting infected inmates of both sexes (_fratres et sorores leprosæ_). Thus Tanner states that the old lazar-house of St. Nicolas, York, contained both male and female lepers.[264] Mackarell and Bridges both mention the same fact with regard to the hospitals of St. Nicolas at Lynne Regis,[265] and of St. Leonard at Northampton;[266] and the inmates of the leper-house of St. Giles, Shrewsbury, bore, according to Owen and Blakeway,[267] the style of the prior, brethren and sisters of St. Giles. A few of the English hospitals were indeed entirely devoted to the reception of leprous females. Thus the hospital of Mayden Bradley was founded in the time of Henry II. for those of the female sex only (_pro mulieribus leprosis_); and the hospital of St. James, Westminster (which, says Bishop Tanner, stood on or near the place now occupied by the palace of the same name), was destined, as the renewed charter of Henry III. bears, for fourteen leprous girls (_quatuordecim Leprosis puellis_).[268] AGE OF THOSE ATTACKED—DURATION OF THE DISEASE. There are no documents (as far as I am aware) which directly throw any light on the age of the inmates of the leper hospitals. The expression, however, of _puellæ_, which I have just quoted as applied to the inmates of St. James’ Hospital, shows the youth not less than the sex of the inmates of that institution, and so far demonstrates that the disease then, as it does now, sometimes attacked its victims very early in life. Baldwin IV. of Jerusalem, (whose case I have already referred to) was affected with the disease while still a minor, and surrendered his crown at the age of 23, in consequence of the ravages which the disease had by that time made upon his constitution. “He died young,” says Fuller, “at five-and-twenty years of age—a king happie in this, that he died before the death of his kingdome.”[269]