Diseases universal and infectious—like morphoea, serpigo, lepra, variolae et morbilli.
The rose burdock—lappa rosea—they give in cases of lepra icthyosis, and it has succeeded where other remedies had failed.
Sulphur has been used with benefit in Eczema, Impetigo, and Lepra.
They were all called by hard names; the eldest was named Lepra, the second Chaeras, and the third Scorbutia.
All things, he says, that are causes of lepra are causes of morphaea; so that what is in the flesh lepra is morphaea in the skin.
