Word: footpad
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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While it has long been known that leprosy is one of the most difficult diseases to catch, nevertheless some people still catch it.-Shepard's footpad test, involving the injection of disease material into mice to see whether bacilli grow out, has enabled U.S. Public Health Service physicians to show that after a few months of treatment with a sulfone drug (Dapsone), most patients are virtually noninfectious. Then they can safely be released from hospitals to live at home with their families and go to work. And it is now possible to determine in a few months what used...