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English: CASE XI. (Photograph 9). The original photograph from which this book illustration is derived was taken by Henry L. Chase in 1878 as a part of the "Report of the Special Sanitary Committee on the State of the Leper Settlement at Kalawao". Image was republished in the The New Orleans Medical and Surgical Journal in April 1880 as part of a later medical examination by John Harrison Bemiss in 1879.

CASE XI. (Photographs 8 and 9.) David Ostrom, a white man, age 60 years. Father and mother Americans, both healthy. He contracted this disease on the Island of Maui; had had syphilis in 1850 in New York. In 1871, first felt tenderness in bottom of feet. In 1872 first noticed yellow spots on breast; made their appearance after the use of cold water. Body covered with salmon-covered spots; hands and feet insensible to feeling; skin dry and shrivelled. Good appetite and able to be about. Vaccinated without effect in the States.

Committee report says:

Wm. Ostrom, a native of the State of New York, American, 55 years of age, 3 years and six months at the settlement. No symptoms of the disease until about six months before coming here. Went himself to be examined by Dr. Enders and, when satisfied he had the disease, voluntarily came to the settlement. He feels satisfied his case is incurable. Would be willing to surrender his body to be vivisected, if necessary for the benefit of medical science. Wants to die. His feelings are terrible. Voluntarily ofiered his person to be photographed. His case is a marked illustration of leprosy. Large swellings in groins, which often suppurate. According to outside information, he was an assistant for some years in the hospital at Lahaina. He took some leper patients to live with him, in order to treat them for cure, and the disease appeared after this association. Photograph 8 represents a front view of Ostrom; photograph 9, a back view.