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...savings banks and to 3,000,000 leprous individuals scattered throughout the world, the annual meeting of the American Mission to Lepers last week in the cozy Church House of Manhattan's Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church was a momentous occurrence. At that meeting Dr. Victor George Heiser, Far East director of the Rockefeller Foundation and president of the International Leprosy Association, dramatically announced that leprosy is apparently being cured. In the process the lepers are dyed blue by injection into their veins of a dye called trypan-blue...
...Federated Malay States, at the Sungei Buloh leper settlement Dr. Gordon A. Ryrie discovered that the blue trypan dye attacked the fatty bacilli present in leprosy and tuberculosis (the forms of the diseases are related). Other investigators confirmed Dr. Ryrie's work, among them cautious Dr. Heiser...
...Within a few moments after the solution of trypan-blue, injected intravenously, enters the vein of a patient," explained Dr. Heiser last week, "the surface lesions of leprosy become clearly outlined, much as if they were painted in blue on the skin. A few minutes later the entire body becomes blue. Within a week or two after this drug has been injected the hard and lumpy swellings of leprosy undergo softening. Shortly afterward they begin to absorb. In a large percentage of cases in a period of a few months all lesions of leprosy disappear. . . . The blue color disappears about...
...Remember November!" shrilled a girl's voice in the gallery. She was Elizabeth Heiser, daughter of an Aberdeen, S. Dak. farmer whose home was about to be foreclosed on a $1,000 mortgage. Guards put Miss Heiser out of the gallery while Democrats cheered her challenge...
...story was told of the retreat founded by Dr. Victor G. Heiser. In a commandeered Government vessel, he went from port to port, herded the wretches on board, took them to Culion. There they led normal lives, received the expensive treatment of ethyl ester. Their children were born "clean...