Word: leprae
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...months, the 44-year-old leprosy patient lay in Jerusalem's Rothschild Hadassah University Hospital, plagued with insomnia and skin eruptions, muscle and joint pains, and high fever-the devilish collection of leprosy-caused symptoms known as lepra reaction. In a last-ditch effort to ease his pain and that of five similarly afflicted patients, Israeli Dermatologists Felix Sagher and Jakob Sheskin decided last November to try an unorthodox remedy: thalidomide...
Leprosy is far from a major health problem in Israel, but there are at least 12 million cases in remote tropical and subtropical areas of the world. And though thalidomide, thus far, has been used solely to reverse the dangerous lepra reaction, the Israeli doctors are continuing the dosage to see if it has any effect on the disease itself. Thalidomide's producer, Chemie Gruenenthal of Germany, is watching the Israeli experiments closely to see if the controversial drug might yet have a useful application...
...Heiser relates that a doctor from the Hebrew University in Jerusalem discovered that the Syrian hamster, a type of rodent, could, by inoculation, be made to support the growth of lepra bacilli. In sharp contrast is your statement that: "Since the lepra bacillus will grow in no other animal...
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...HISTORICALLY INACCURATE AS PROFESSOR CHARLES WARREN DUVAL GAVE TULANE UNIVERSITY SOPHOMORE MEDICAL STUDENTS A PROVED CULTURE OF LEPROSY BACILLI TO STUDY IN AUTUMN OF 1910 WITH THIS STATEMENT QUOTE YOU ARE THE FIRST CLASS OF MEDICAL STUDENTS IN THE WORLD TO WORK WITH A LABORATORY GROWN CULTURE OF B LEPRA UNQUOTE...
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