Note 247 — PART III.
Reading edition
I have already shown in Part I. that the name here given to the leprosy by the old French historian exactly corresponds with the Anglo-Saxon designation of the disease “seo mycle adhl.” It perhaps deserves to be added that (as appears from a paper of Dr. Ainslie—Asiatic Researches, vol. i. p. 287) the term “Peri Vishadi,” applied to tubercular leprosy by the Brahmins of Hindustan, also literally signifies “the great disease.”