TROPICAL DISEASE.
CONFERENCE AT BOMBAY. TREATMENT OF LEPROBY. 1 CURES REPORTED. toi ißtißQiurn—rßESß AflsocuTioH—corittion?,) London, February . 23. - Sir Georgo Sydenham Clarke,. Governor of Bombay, opened the Congress on Tropical Diseases at Bombay. _ NEW TREATMENT FOR LEPROSY. ' : (Reo. February 24, ,9.45 p.m.) , ■ Calcutta, February' 24.' . At tho Bombay Medical Congress, SurgeonCaptain Williams, Residency surgeon 'at Bushire, announced the- result of eight months' treatment.of leprosy .patients. He had, cured two lepers by, Deyck's Nastin method,: two others were practically cured, and a fifth-had remarkably improved. ; Last year .Professor. ; Dey.ok ; suggested a-new treatment for leprosy., Having .cultivated the lepra' bacillus, he extracted from it a fattv principle) nastin, wbioh when combined,with' benzoyl chloride and administered in adequate doses brings about, if not in every, case a-euro, at least the arrest of the disease- in all but the most hopeless cases. The combination of > nastin with bonroyl chloride aots .directly upon the lepra ■bacillus by depriving it of its fatty element, thereby killinfe it and leaving it an | easy, prey to the protective influences of the. tissues.', ...... , . "
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Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 441, 25 February 1909, Page 5
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