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Keanu (c. 1836 – November 18, 1892) was a Native Hawaiian male prisoner used as a test subject in experiments on leprosy by German physician Eduard Arning. He purposely infected with the disease to see if he could be innoculated. With the progression of leprosy, he was exiled to the leper colony of Kalaupapa where he died.
Sentenced to death and later commuted to life in prison on the condition that he participate in Arning's experiments.
He was transferred to Kalaupapa on February 6, 1889.[1]
He died on November 18, 1892, at the age of 56, eight years and fifty days after Arning's inoculation. [1] The location of his burial is unknown.[2]
Arning asked Emerson to send Keanu to be treated in Germany.[3]
References
[edit]Bibliography
[edit]- Inglis, Kerri A. (2013). Ma'i Lepera: A History of Leprosy in Nineteenth-Century Hawai'i. Honolulu, HI: University of Hawaii Press. ISBN 978-0-8248-6579-5.
- Law, Anwei Skinsnes (2012). Kalaupapa: A Collective Memory (Ka Hokuwelowelo). Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press. ISBN 978-0-8248-6580-1. OCLC 830023588 – via Project MUSE.
- Keanu: Arning, 167; case against, 163–165; inoculation of, 161, 162, 163, 165; leprosy, 165, 166
- Mouritz, Arthur Albert St. M. (1916). "The Path of the Destroyer": A History of Leprosy in the Hawaiian Islands and Thirty Years Research Into the Means by which it Has Been Spread. Honolulu: Press: Honolulu Star-Bulletin, Ltd. OCLC 14801226.
- Tayman, John (2010). The Colony: The Harrowing True Story of the Exiles of Molokai. New York: Simon and Schuster. ISBN 978-1-4165-5192-8. OCLC 865230373.
- https://leprosyhistory.org/database/person87
- https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/7de6/278fe58b72ac5e475cf7482e4d54894024f4.pdf
- https://collections.nlm.nih.gov/ext/dw/101744458/PDF/101744458.pdf
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