Treatment of Leprosy

THE terminology of leprosy has changed consider ably in recent years, making necessary some account of the present classification of the disease. Two principal types are recognized, lepromatous and tuberculoid, and two intermediate groups, indeterminate or uncharacteristic and borderline (dimorphous). The main types vary greatly in relative frequency in different parts of the world. In the Philippines, for example, lepromatous cases constitute perhaps 40 per cent of total leprosy; in India, this form accounts for only about 20 per cent. Of indigenous cases arising in the continental United States, about 85 per cent are lepromatous.1 The lepromatous type is characterized . . .