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...more amenable to treatment. Drugs arrest the progress of leprosy, but they do not cure. They are simply "useful adjuncts" to good food and plenty of vitamins. Just as useful as chaulmoogra oil, upon which hopes have risen high, is "any kind of counterirritant. Acids painted on the leper's body sometimes cause the cells to react, multiply, and eat up the bacilli...
Knowing that leprosy is not very contagious, Manila's chief health officials quickly appeared at San Lazaro to placate its inmates. The Philippine Government, they intimated, lacks money to pay institutional lepers immediately. On the other hand, the Government is building regional leprosaria where lepers may live near their kin. As soon as doctors pronounce a leper cured he will be freed. But only one out of 20 lepers may expect to be cured. Therefore, the other 19 had better make the best of confinement. The Government gives them vegetable gardens to tend, occupations to perform, diversions. Children...
...eleven years Dr. Heiser was Director of Public Health in the Philippines. Resigning to become Director for the East of the Rockefeller Foundation, he traveled through Europe and Asia, lived in Ethiopia, Japan, Siam, Australia, the South Sea Islands. Russia. His professional duties ranged from establishing a leper colony in the Philippines to conducting a colleague on a round-the-world tour in the interest of the fight against tuberculosis, from persuading Haile Selassie to cooperate in the struggle against yellow fever to leading a campaign against polished rice in the South Seas. Vigorous, informative, complacent, he discourses with equal...
Molokai Impression Sirs: It is to be regretted that in your interesting and informative article on the "Return of Damien," in TIME, Feb. 3, you did not correct the general impression that the entire island of Molokai is a leper settlement, hence the name "Molokai" a bit loathesome...
...fairness to that beautiful little island it should be known that the leper settlement occupies only about six or seven square miles on a low lava flow peninsula which projects from the foot of the sheer cliffs, 1,500 to 2,000 ft. high, forming the imposing north coast of the island. The settlement is accessible from the remainder of the island only by a very steep and narrow foot and horse trail, carefully guarded. In fact the settlement is closer, insofar as accessibility is concerned, to Oahu than to the remainder of Molokai...