My Leper Friends

About this eBook

Author

Hayes, Alice M., 1863?-1913

Title

My leper friends : An account of personal work among lepers, and of their daily life in India

Original Publication

United Kingdom: W. Thacker and Co., 1891.

Credits

The Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)

Language

English

LoC Class

RC: Medicine: Internal medicine

Subject

Leprosy -- India

Category

Text

Project Gutenberg

eBook-No. 70301

Release Date

March 16, 2023

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.MY LEPER FRIENDS.
2. 2.Untitled
3. 3.Untitled
4. 4.PREFACE.
5. 5.CONTENTS.
6. 6.MY LEPER FRIENDS.
7. 7.CHAPTER I. SETTLING IN CALCUTTA—OUR “SPORTING NEWS.”
8. 8.CHAPTER II. BROTHER JOHN—MR. McGUIRE—GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS—THE LEPER ASYLUM—AN IRISH WOMAN—THE JEWESS—DAISY AND BELLA—A DEATH SCENE—EURASIAN LEPERS.
9. 9.CHAPTER III. THE ACCOUNT I WROTE—BRIDGET—AN OFFICIAL VISIT TO THE LEPERS.
10. 10.CHAPTER IV. NEWSPAPER CRITICISM—“TRUTH” AND MR. PRINSEP—“THE QUEEN.”
11. 11.CHAPTER V. EFFORTS TO COMFORT—OUR SUBSCRIPTION FUND—IMPROVEMENTS.
12. 12.CHAPTER VI. MISS O’BRIEN—AMATEUR ACTORS—A PERFORMANCE IN AID OF OUR FUND.
13. 13.CHAPTER VII. WHITE LEPERS—DR. MACLAREN—HEAT AND MISERY.
14. 14.CHAPTER VIII. NEED FOR A HOME FOR EUROPEAN AND EURASIAN LEPERS—OUR PUBLIC MEETING.
15. 15.CHAPTER IX. HOPE—KATE REILLY.
16. 16.CHAPTER X. ARCHDEACON MICHELL—DISPOSAL OF OUR FUND—THE LEPER CAT—THE IDIOT BOY.
17. 17.CHAPTER XI. THE NUNS OF LORETTO CONVENT.
18. 18.CHAPTER XII. MEDICINE—NO WARM BATHS—AN UGLY LOOKING-GLASS—CHRISTMAS DAY IN THE LEPER ASYLUM—THE LEPER BOY—MR. BAILEY.
19. 19.CHAPTER XIII. LEPERS IN BOMBAY—A LECTURE AT THE SOROSIS CLUB—OUR DEPARTURE FROM INDIA.
20. 20.CHAPTER XIV. REMARKS ON LEPROSY. — Transcriber’s Notes

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