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Excerpt from American Practice of Surgery, Vol. 2 of 8: A Complete System of the Science and Art of Surgery, by Representative Surgeons of the United States and Canada Leprosy still exists extensively in Mexico. Scattered cases are found here and there among the Gulf States, and it is seen on the Pacific coast in the persons of Chinese and Hawaiian immigrants. Isolated cases are encountered from time to time in all the seaboard cities. Many Norwegian lepers settled in our North western States, but the disease has never shown a tendency to spread there and is rapidly dying out. Leprosy in Louisiana appears to have been introduced either by Acadian immigration in 1758 or, as in the case of Tracadie, directly from northern France, where the disease has not yet entirely died out. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.