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    NOTICES OF BOOKS. 345

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    friendl We turned y manner round to a our rock questions and here , afterwards inside the followed craterwith us to an a little incomparable distance . view over it and the sea , were built , within the rock-wall , the dwellings of the

    with lepers The little sheets . We rooms . g There lanced smelt was into damp , one some , room but of were which them neat , I was the , and doors warned their of against beds which were entering stood furnished open , but . for there in the

    last for that stage very of the reason disease I went . It slowl is difficult y into it to , imagine lay anything a leprous more man horrible . There was that no this sing skeleton le feature of still the living face remaining and breathing . When I besoug I had ht convinced of Dr .

    will myself Cigala caus , h who e thee remained . to At rise these standing again was words to at a the the new skeleton door life , and to speak moved with to a raised new , him . bod his Jesus y attenuated , ' said Christ the , good pysician ,

    bleeding his breast still arms . It seemed , was extended his perfect repl them y I , requested he upwards had no , the longer then doctor sank the to power them ask slowl him of speech if y I crosswise could . As send his on

    made him hearing anything the word which luccumi would intelli , give ible him . I any promised pleasure to . send With it great to him difficult , and after y he - g

    wards _inqiiired agreed from in praising the other his lepers iety and about his his perfect conditio submission n and state . A of lthoug mind h .

    Every one p as he it longs is the to will die , of yet G he -od . is perfectl Every one y contented seemed to to regard live in him this with condition affection so long and Xet his looked and

    poverty stood esteem as , - as stricken refreshment an examp than le by any to his of imitate couch the . . others Dr . , Ci and gala room nothing said that but he mi a more g bottle who ht yet emp lived of perhaps ty water here

    like live a swallows year longer in the . rock Of the wall fourteen few of lepers them , men were and as yet women greatl , y disfigured by , the diseasebut in allthe y hands , had been attacked so that they were unable

    to that yet labour twent of coming . y , years Two by of of degrees them age , . , They a into man the had and state no a other woman of the prospect , living were skeleton still for their quite . futur Yet young e for than , not all forward to their fate with horror asi

    sufficient ness of that the , . none manner [ No of one them in the comp which seemed preceding lained they to of were look day his they condition provided had not , for but had , which they universall thing was uncertain but y bread comp or and un to lained e eat in - - .

    north Sometimes wind . they last On win were ter wholl the whole y forgotten little . colony During had the any been prevalence seen to come of an down icy

    to the town ( Phera ) perishing , with cold and hunger . For two days they had received had nothing their at all behalf to eat . and They distributed are entirel to y them supported by a c b ommission y alms which in the are

    the town alms . But on it is as consequentl the amount y distributed unequal , and to often them insufficient depends upon . Dr the . Ci amount gala , who of

    the and is evidentl lepers comp , lained , y which a warm for were his -hearted uttered own part and hi with of thoug hl their gentle htful lod low gment man in , voices considers this in the , disease to rock be the , full the comp y dampness justified _laints of ,

    the and " horrified best coldness When hosp we at ital of the which reflect establi were that shment ht of this so the in g institution Greece others y prejudicial for I at know the Santori disease that n long of is leprosy considered ago . the , we philan to must be - be thoug

    throp subscri ic could ption Dr . be for Koeser divided the , erection in into connection various of an hosp with classes ital . Dr for and . lepers Cigala receive , and , near all others Athens the , heln , , opened in or which the a they ,

    alleviation which the knowledge of medicine and science could impart ;

    Notices Of Books. 345

    NOTICES OF BOOKS . 345

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  • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Jan. 1, 1863, page 345, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01011863/page/57/