A TRIUMPH OF SCIENCE.
TREATMENT OF LEPROSY. WELLINGTON, June 26. “ The new cure for leprosy discovered by the British scientists, led by Sir Leonard Rodgers, has so far produced marvellous results, and if the disease is caught in the early stages cures are effected in from six to eight months. Over 400 people have been discharged cured from the asylums of India, under the Leper Missions control since the introduction of the new treatment,’' said the Rev. R. J. Grundy, of the Leper Mission, to-day. Mr Grundy explained that the new cure is administered by injection of the derivatives of hydnocaipus (Chaulmoogra oil). More recent developments of the treatment consist of injections of the pure oil, but it is not yet certain whether the pure oil or ethylesters is the more effective, and experiments with both are being carried out at the present time in the leper homes of the mission. Patients are now being discharged cured every month. Sir Leonard Rodgers is a member of the executive and of the council of the mission, and his opinion, stated in writing to Mr Grundy, is that the new specific is one of the medical discoveries of the age, curing as it does a disease that has baffled doctors for hundreds of years.
Mr and Mrs Grundy are at present touring New Zealand in the iriterests of the Leper Mission.
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Otago Witness, Issue 3877, 3 July 1928, Page 5
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229A TRIUMPH OF SCIENCE. Otago Witness, Issue 3877, 3 July 1928, Page 5
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