TREATMENT OF LEPROSY
Great advances in the treatment of leprosy by the use of new drugs, promin and diazone, are related by Dr E. A. Fennel, a prominent American pathologist practising at Honolulu, in a letter to an Auckland doctor. The drugs bring amazing changes in the condition of the mucous membrane of
the larynx, which is often seriously affected by leprosy, according to Dr Fennel, and patients who for years* have had to wear tubes through the larynx to allow them to breathe are now able to dispense with them, this was unheard of before the advent of the new agents. ‘‘There are 3,000,000 leprous patients in the Orient awaiting these agents,’’ concludes Dr Fennel.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 26471, 27 May 1947, Page 6
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116TREATMENT OF LEPROSY Otago Daily Times, Issue 26471, 27 May 1947, Page 6
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