Identifier: reportoffirstex00harv (find matches)
Title: Report of first expedition to South America, 1913
Year: 1915 (1910s)
Authors: Harvard Medical School. Dept of Tropical Medicine Strong, Richard P. (Richard Pearson), 1872-1948 Tyzzer, E. E. (Ernest Edward), 1875-1965 Brues, Charles T. (Charles Thomas), 1879-1955 Sellards, Andrew Watson, 1884-1942 Gastiaburu, J. C
Subjects: Medical geography Tropical medicine Geography Tropical Medicine
Publisher: Cambridge, Mass., Harvard Univ. Press
Contributing Library: Columbia University Libraries
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Fig 1.— Early lesions on mother and child, slightly more advanced than shown in Plate xxxv, Fig 2.
Plate XXXVI. UTA
VI. UTA
Uta is a disease which has existed in Peru since prehistoric times, the lesions of which have been supposedly depicted on the ancient “huacos” or pottery, of the Incas. It has been stated in the earlier literature that the disease represented a form of syphilis, or of prehistoric leprosy, or a special form of lupus vulgaris. Smith¹ and Tschudi² refer to the malady and point out that it consists of an inflammation of the skin,endemic in various parts of Peru, particularly on the road from Lima to the mines of Cerro de Pasco. According to them the disease consists of an inflammation caused by the boring of a parasite through the skin, frequently of the scrotum, the result being the production of an ulcer which later takes on a cancerous or lupous character. The malady sometimes ends fatally. Hirsch³ states that uta possibly belongs in the group of diseases caused by larvae of Oestrus, developing in the subcutaneous tissue.

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