Arthur Albert St. Maur Mouritz,Wade, H. W. (1951)
Human Inoculation Experiments in Hawaii Including Notes On Those of Arning and Of Fitch
''International Journal of Leprosy''. Volume 19 Number 2. Retrieved April 5, 2020.Mouritz, A. A. St. M. (1916).
The Path of the Destroyer - A History of Leprosy in the Hawaiian Islands
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Retrieved March 1, 2020. often credited as A. Mouritz, (1861–1943) was a British physician known for his studies of

leprosy Leprosy, also known as Hansen's disease (HD), is a long-term infection by the bacteria ''Mycobacterium leprae'' or ''Mycobacterium lepromatosis''. Infection can lead to damage of the nerves, respiratory tract, skin, and eyes. This nerve damag ...

in Hawaii.Daly, Matthew. (2007)
Medical Necessity As A Defense For Crimes Against Humanity: An Examination of the Molokai Transfers
''Arizona Journal of International & Comparative Law'', Volume 24, No. 3, pp. 645–700. Retrieved April 22, 2020. He travelled from England to Hawaii in 1883, and was the resident physician to the Kalaupapa Leper Settlement in

Molokai, Hawaii Molokai , or Molokai (), is the fifth most populated of the eight major islands that make up the Hawaiian Islands archipelago in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. It is 38 by 10 miles (61 by 16 km) at its greatest length and width with a us ...

, from 1884 to 1887 or 1888.Amundson, Ron (2010)
A Wholesome Horror: The Stigmas of Leprosy in 19th Century Hawaii
''Disability Studies Quarterly''. Volume 30 Number 3/4. Retrieved April 5, 2020.Greene, Linda W. (1985).
Exile in Paradise
'. National Park Service. Retrieved April 5, 2020. He found evidence that there were cases of leprosy in Hawaii before 1830. Mouritz studied how leprosy was spread through experiments on hundreds of

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. He and his colleagues received international and long-standing notoriety for their experimental inoculation of leprosy into apparently healthy people.Trautman, J. R. (1984)
Epidemiological aspects of Hansen's disease
Bulletin of the New York Academy of Medicine, 60(7): 722–731. Retrieved April 21, 2020. To justify his experiments, Mouritz stated that Hawaiians were the only race not disgusted by leprosy symptoms. Mouritz's research revealed that leprosy was less

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than previously thought. He concluded that leprosy could not be spread by insects, casual proximity or

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, but only be spread to a healthy person by exposing the

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of the

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to the leprosy bacteria. He posed that the bacteria summoned a fermentogen that was only available in susceptible humans, which fed the leprosy. Instead of being moved to free the residents of the isolated

leper colony A leper colony, also known by many other names, is an isolated community for the quarantining and treatment of lepers, people suffering from leprosy. '' M. leprae'', the bacterium responsible for leprosy, is believed to have spread from East Af ...

so they could return home to their communities, he justified keeping them confined because he was disgusted by their ugliness. Mouritz wrote the first American book on Hawaiian leprosy,Bernholz, Charles D. (2009)
Pestilence in Paradise: Leprosy Accounts in the Annual Reports of the Governor of the Territory of Hawaii
''Faculty Publications, UNL Libraries.'' 184. also published in Government Information Quarterly 26:2, pp. 407–415. Retrieved April 21, 2020. and later wrote a book about the history of leprosy. He practised medicine for at least 40 years. After leaving Hawaii, he returned to explain the world history of influenza from 1120 B.C. to 1919 A.D., and its causes and treatments. His book ''The Flu'' is included in the Surgeon General's Library at the U. S.

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