CASE VI. (Photograph 2). The original photograph from which this book illustration is derived was taken by Henry L. Chase in 1878 as a part of the <i>"Report of the Special Sanitary Committee on the State of the Leper Settlement at Kalawao"</i>. Image was republished in the <i>The New Orleans Medical and Surgical Journal</i> in April 1880 as part of a later medical examination by John Harrison Bemiss in 1879.
<p>CASE VI. (Photograph 2.) Pilaui, female. age 41, native of Kauai. Father still alive, mother died in child-bed , both very healthy. Married in 1851 ; had three children. She says she caught the leprosy from another native in 1872 by living in same house. In 1874 had first appearance of leprosy with red spots upon the body. In the same year was sent to Molokai. Does not remember having had syphilis. Legs affected as hands and face, Skin of body dry and cracking. Eats well and is able to be about. Was vaccinated by two foreigners, one a physician, both times with good result.
</p><p>The photograph shows the tubercles scattered in the hypertrophied skin of the face. The ugly looking ulcers on her hands are well shown.
</p><p>The committee report says:
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Pilani, a woman, thirty-three years of age, from Waimea, Kauai, and three years and sixth months at the Settlement, says that her person showed very slight indications of leprosy when she came here, but since her stay at Kalawao, the disease has developed very rapidly. She has a child, a boy, five years of age, now living at Waimea, not a leper, and in the enjoyment of good health. This case was photographed, No. 2.
<bdi><a href="https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q46482625" class="extiw" title="d:Q46482625"><span title="American photographer (1831—1901)">Henry L. Chase</span></a>
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<ul><li>original photograph; between 28 May 1878 and 29 May 1878 <div style="display: none;">date QS:P,+1878-05-00T00:00:00Z/10,P1319,+1878-05-28T00:00:00Z/11,P1326,+1878-05-29T00:00:00Z/11</div></li>
<li>book illustration; circa April 1880 <div style="display: none;">date QS:P,+1880-04-00T00:00:00Z/10,P1480,Q5727902</div></li></ul>
<ul><li><cite style="font-style:normal">Bemiss, J. H. (<span class="mw-formatted-date" title="1879-12-15">December 15, 1879</span>). "<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=VLI1AQAAMAAJ&amp;pg=PA930-IA5">A Few Cases of Leprosy</a>". <i>The New Orleans Medical and Surgical Journal</i> <b>VII</b>: 923–938. New Orleans: L. Graham.</cite></li>
<li><cite style="font-style:normal"> (<span class="mw-formatted-date" title="1878-06-08">June 8, 1878</span>). "<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn82015418/1878-06-08/ed-1/seq-5/">Report of the Special Sanitary Committee on the State of the Leper Settlement at Kalawao</a>". <i>The Pacific Commercial Advertiser</i>: 5–6.</cite></li>
<li><cite class="book" style="font-style:normal" id="Reference-Gibson-1886">Gibson, Walter M. (1886)      <i> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=lAo6v_bBaHIC&amp;pg=RA2-PA80">Report of the President of the Board of Health to the Legislative Assembly of 1886, on Leprosy</a></i>, <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Honolulu" title="Category:Honolulu">Honolulu</a>:  P. C. Advertiser Steam Print, pp. 80–92  <small><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Online_Computer_Library_Center" class="extiw" title="en:Online Computer Library Center">OCLC</a>:   <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/14786045">14786045</a>. </small></cite></li></ul>