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Hello Friends of the network, DERMAGIC EXPRESS today with the
interesting topic:
WHITE CAPE, THE LEPROSARIUM.
As explained in the chapter
THE ISLAND OF PROVIDENCIA, The Spanish and German conquerors brought LEPROSY to this
continent.
In the case of WHITE CAPE it was not tried that the LEPERS were
confined from the beginning In La Guaira Vargas State, these
were located first in the Capital, city of CARACAS and after
created The LEPROSARIUM in MARACAIBO in the years 1.928-30 by Simon Bolivar, in
the ISLAND OF PROVIDENCIA, was created LEPROSARIUM OF WHITE CAPE in a region facing the CARIBBEAN SEA in the Coasts of an
identified CAPE As WHITE CAPE, hence its name.
It is important that you know that the Maiquetia International
Airport is related With WHITE CAPE, in fact its Airstrip are in
front of this CAPE, the LEPROSARIUM was located near this one.
On January 1, 1.945, when the WHITE CAPE LEPROSARIUM had more than 20 years There, the President of the
Republic for that time, Isaías Medina Angarita inaugurated the
International Airport of Maiquetia, which over the years was
expanded to PLACE NEW AIRSTRIP, and longer.
It is interesting to remind you that the first drug effective
against LEPROSY synthesized was
DDS (DAPSONE) under
the trade name PROMIN, chemical component
GLUCOSULFONE SODIUM
(Parke Davis laboratory) in 1.940, when there was still no
effective treatment for this disease.
The commercial presentation of the drug
PROMIN: solution in
bottles for intravenous injection.
The effectiveness of PROMIN against LEPROSY was first discovered
by
Guy Henry Faget and his co-workers in 1.943 in Carville,
Louisiana,
and then used in the different LEPROSERIES OF THE WORLD,
including WHITE CAPE.
My father told me that WHEN HE WAS A DIRECTOR OF
THE LEPROSARIUM ... "The medical students went to WHITE CAPE to practice
injections with the PROMIN ..." Subsequently,
DIAMINODIPHENYL-SULFONE was synthesized in a
commercial presentation of 100 mg tablets.
In the years 1.960 to 1.970, new drugs
CLOFAZIMINE and RIFAMPICIN appear highly effective
against THE
MYCOBACTERIUM LEPRAE
and the so-called
MULTI DRUGS THERAPY (MTD)
is introduced with these three medicines, with a good margin of
success against this stigmatizing and biblical disease.
This event is what DECREES OR MATERIALIZES the closure of LEPROSERIES in
the WORLD, keeping patients under Strict control of their
medicines. In fact the patients already out of the leproseries
go to the centers Of epidemiological control monthly and are
educated how to take the medicines, and their possible adverse
reactions.
What I am going to tell you now may surprise some, but it is the
reality. !
You go Google and look for
"LEPROSARIUM OF WHITE CAPE"
and you will not get almost information, on the contrary With
respect to the
LEPROSERY OF THE ISLAND OF PROVIDENCIA. It seems that it had "eaten by the sea" ... so it was...
In the years that the closing of the
LEPROSERY OF PROVIDENCIA ISLAND in Maracaibo Zulia State
was decreed, Also the same is done with WHITE CAPE, but
here is a different story.
My father had already abandoned the field of research, by the
way there I leave 11 more jobs that I do Together with CONVIT,
including inoculation in animals. NOT CONVIT ONLY, WERE CONVIT
and LAPENTA ... and others See attachments.
Dr. Jacinto CONVIT ordered the closing of THE WHITE CAPE
LEPROCOMIUM for two reasons.
1.) Leproseries were no longer
justified due to the NEW TREATMENTS.
2.) The airport of Maiquetia was to be EXPANDED
in its airstrips, and for this Had to demolish the LEPROSARIUM, because it occupied what would be the longest track of it. !
My uncle FERNANDO JOSE LAPENTA the man who demolish it
told me that was one of the reasons !
Here comes in action MY UNCLE FERNANDO LAPENTA, younger
brother of DR. PEDRO LAPENTA,
Topographer, inventor, Photographer and professor
of mathematics during 20 years of the university UNERG
in the Guarico State, San Juan de Los Morros.
This is the Relation that I speaks to you in the Chapter
ISLAND OF PROVIDENCE about
FERNANDO LAPENTA, brother Minor of Dr. Lapenta Pedro with
THE WHITE CAPE LEPROSARIUM.
Convit made contact with my
UNCLE FERNANDO JOSE LAPENTA TORTOLERO, through my FATHER his
personal friend DR. PEDRO LAPENTA, to execute the "work".
My uncle FERNANDO tells me that when he arrived at WHITE CAPE,
the first thing he saw in THE ENTRANCE was
A poster that said: LEPROSARIUM OF WHITE
CAPE, DIRECTOR:
DR. PEDRO LAPENTA
... "take photo To all that ", he said, I do not have them here
today.
Speaking to my uncle, I asked him:
What did you do with the structure?
He replied: "It was a ghost structure ... and
PULL THROUGH THE SEA
WITH A CATERPILLAR TRACTOR" I push it, because the LEPROSARIUM WAS NEAR THE COAST...OF THE CARIBBEAN SEA"
That is the story of how the WHITE CAPELEPROSARIUM "disappeared". The sea ate it ...
MY UNCLE, I REPEAT, I LAUNCH IT TO THE SEA !!! My father
was director 18 to 20 years, My uncle demolished it!
But what happened to the patients that were there ??.
They were transferred to GUARICO STATE to a urbanization
FOR LEPERS, which CONVIT Command to build for them. I
witnessed this because in my second (2) year of internship for
the area of LEPROSY in the MARACAY CENTRAL HOSPITAL under the
command of
DR. JORGE ALVARADO ROMERO,
year 1.992, I had the opportunity to examine a patient with
LEPROSY From that area.
If you examine the attachments well you can see a map of
the most endemic states of leprosy in Venezuela
(Guarico, Portuguese, Trujillo, Barinas and Apure) FOR
the year 1.997, a decade or more, After closed WHITE CAPE.
Patients transferred from WHITE CAPE are presumed to be that
diffused it.
For the year 2.102 the same CONVIT makes a publication where he
mentions that the Portuguese State Is a hyperendemic zone of
LEPROSY IN VENEZUELA.
It was not as WIKIPEDIA says And those blogs you read there: ...
"Then J. CONVIT discovered The VACCINE AND LEPROSY disappeared
.." That information IS FAKE. Convit dies in 2.014. For The year
2.015 WHO (World Health Organization) reports 215.000 new cases
of LEPROSY in the world. soon I will update this.
Convit was a great innovator and "manufacture" the
IMMUNOTHERAPY FOR LEPROSY, Helping immensely against this
disease, his work is invaluable, But unfortunately this
IMMUNOTHERAPY FAILED, today the WORLD treatment for LEPROSY is
Multidrug Therapy (MTD): SULFONES (DDS), plus RIFAMPICIN
and in some cases CLOFAZIMINE.
But also the DR LAPENTA, my father has his merits in all this,
because it was who drove those 2 LEPROSARIUM for many years and
together with CONVIT published great works on LERPROSY As I said
before both formed a "master key" fighting the disease, at that
time.
This second CHAPTER OF THE LEPROSARIES IN VENEZUELA is a
tribute to these two great researchers And scientists CONVIT AND
LAPENTA. ! And many others. A tribute also to all those patients
and staff Who lived in WHITE CAPE and PROVIDENCIA.
As an interesting fact in the year 1.937
Dr. JOHN REENSTIERNA
professor of UNIVERSITY OF UPSALA SWEDEN, I used a
"antileprosy" serum in 30 patients of the WHITE CAPE
LEPROSARIUM, contracted For that time by his DIRECTOR, the
FAMOUS DR. MARTIN VEGAS.
The LEPROSERIES had many DIRECTORS, because they lasted almost
a century or more, they all deserve A NAME IN HISTORY. My father
DR. PEDRO LAPENTA was one of them.
You that are reading me, if you are a doctor or dermatologist,
find out the history of the LEPROSARIES in the World, you will
realize the great struggle of man against this disease.
There I leave you pictures of the approximate
location
of LEPROSARIUM OF WHITE CAPE, the WORKS OF CONVIT AND LAPENTA,
DR. PEDRO LAPENTA with my uncle FERNANDO LAPENTA.
The Endemic States of Leprosy for 1.997 in Venezuela, the cover
of a book that tells the story of THE LEPROSARIES IN VENEZUELA,
by P. Feliciano Alonso, and the
proof that CONVIT AND LAPENTA were the first to
describe
ANERGIC DIFFUSE CUTANEOUS LEISHMANIASIS.
Says the red box:
"This variety of Cutaneous Leishmaniasis with its own
characteristics that differentiate it from other types of
disease was first described by Convit and Lapenta in
Venezuela (1948)."
ANECDOTE; It is said that the famous CHE GUEVARA, who was a doctor, did
an internship at CAPE WHITE; This is FALSE, there was another doctor there who was called CHE, CONFIRMED
BY DR LAPENTA, who at that time was already the director there.
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Maracay Estado Aragua Venezuela 2.017-2.023
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