TREATMENT OF LEPROSY.
SUCCESS IN QUEENSLAND. APPARENT CURES MADE. Encouraging results are attending the efforts of the health authorities in Queensland in the curing of leprosy. A recent announcement is that they expect to be able to discharge five patients from the Peel Island lazarette, near Brisbane, as cured, or, at any rate, so free from the disease as to give no indication of its presence. These five persons are Europeans, one of them being a woman. They have been undergoing a course of treatment with refined Chaulmoogra oil, and the effect has been remarkable. Frequent tests of their condition have been made during the last twelve months, and so far no leprous organisms have been detected. To all appearances they are quite normal. They will be discharged before Christmas, but will be required to report themselves pereiodically so that their condition can be noted. If there should be no relapse or recurrence oi the disease the door of hope will be opened wide for many unfortunates. The process of cure is slow, but with cure at the end of it neither patients nor doctors are likely to weary./
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Taranaki Daily News, 29 December 1921, Page 5
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189TREATMENT OF LEPROSY. Taranaki Daily News, 29 December 1921, Page 5
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