NEW DISEASE.
EVERY CASE FATAL. FAILURE OF INVESTIGATIONS. A strange disease called lenticular degeneration, of which only 70 cases have been known since 1912, is described by Dr. F. M. R. Walshe in “ Medical Science Abstracts,” published by the Medical Research Council. 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 old one newly observed we cannot say,” said a brain specialist to a reporter. "It is one of the many disease mysteries which we are unable to explain."
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Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXV, Issue 4777, 17 November 1924, Page 1
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122NEW DISEASE. Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXV, Issue 4777, 17 November 1924, Page 1
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