DRUG FROM GERMANY
CURE FOR MALARIA FOUND. SUCCESS IN CEYLON EPIDEMIC. London, March 12. About 200 cases of malaria in Ceylon have been cured by Dr. A. T. Simeon, an Englishman, who used the drug atebron musonal, the Colombo correspondent of the Daily Mail states. Two injections, it is stated, are sufficient to prevent a relapse, in contrast with the long treatment necessary with quinine. The Ceylon Government, impressed with the success of the new drug, proposes to treat 50.000 sufferers. Dr. Simeon, accompanied by his young German wife and one assistant, works in the jungle villages, where thousands clamour for treatment. Supplies of the drug are exhausted, but more is coming by air from Germany, where it was discovered,
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Taranaki Daily News, 23 March 1935, Page 9
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120DRUG FROM GERMANY Taranaki Daily News, 23 March 1935, Page 9
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