Word: tuberculoid
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Jennifer Burton and Peter Howard stand out with consistently solid performances as the landlady and her homosexual tuberculoid tenant. As Mrs. Wire, Burton masterfully shows the despair of a woman losing much of what she once had, including her sanity. Howard's despair, though, is that of someone striving for what he can' never have. Howard brings a strong sense of understanding and sympathy which elicits more than just the typical--and perhaps automatic--pity...
There are two principal forms of the disease. In tuberculoid leprosy, few bacilli are present, and the symptoms are pale, patchy spots on the face, hands and feet. In the more contagious, lepromatous form, many microorganisms are present in the skin and in nasal secretions; patches and lumps can occur all over the body, and the facial lines tend to deepen. Leprosy does not usually cause gross mutilations. But it can cause a numbness of the hands and feet that leads to accidental burning or mutilation of extremities. This is a source of the myth that leprosy causes parts...
...cheaply produced tablet free from serious side-effects, dapsone has become the world's chief method of combating leprosy. Although the bacteria causing HD display increasing signs of developing resistance to the drug, dapsone remains an effective means of arresting the illness when a patient suffers from the pure-tuberculoid strain, a less-severe type of HD. Victims with this form of illness can usually expect to lead perfectly normal lives without any of the scars and deformities ordinarily associated with leprosy, if doctors diagnose the condition at an early stage...
...strain straddles the borderline area between the two, sometimes displaying characteristics of the tuberculoid, sometimes resembling the lepromatous. Because of the negative reaction she has to sulphone-based drugs, Li needs close supervision at the moment. Thus she lives in the modern infirmary rather than the somewhat dilapidated dormitories provided for more permanent residents...
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