NEW MYSTERY DISEASE
EVERY CASE FATAL. A strange disease, called lenticular degeneration, of which only 70 cases have been known since 1912, is described bv Dr. F. M. R. Walshe in Medical Science Abstracts, published by the Medical Research Council of Great Britain.
It occurs in youth and early adult life, and is always fatal. All investigations have failed to discover the cause. It is believed that the disease originates in the liver, which elaborates a poison that acts on a particular part of the brain.
“Whether this is a new disease or only an ol done newly observed we cannot say,” said a brain specialist. ‘lt is one of the many disease mysteries which we are unable to explain.”
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 15 November 1924, Page 4
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120NEW MYSTERY DISEASE Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 15 November 1924, Page 4
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