Word: leprologist
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...Hope. The leaders in developing the new sulfa treatment were Dr. Faget and world-famed Leprologist George H. McCoy, head of Louisiana State University's preventive medicine department. (They long ago dropped the traditional chaulmoogra oil as worthless.) Because leprae bacilli are tough, and most of Carville's patients are in advanced stages of the disease, recovery is slow. But heavy daily injections of Promin (or doses of Diasone or Promizole pills) gradually clear out the bacilli, reduce swellings, heal lesions...
Last month the Leonard Wood Memorial was glad to finance Leprologist Ernest Muir so that he might leave his headquarters in London for an evangelistic tour of U. S. medical centres where leprosy, the subject in which the Memorial is particularly interested, is studied. Dr. Muir, 56, spent 15 years as a medical missionary among Bengal lepers, another 15 years as a research worker in leprosy in Calcutta's School of Tropical Medicine. At present he is Medical Secretary of the British Empire Leprosy Relief Association. In the U. S., Dr. Muir addressed the American Society of Tropical Medicine...
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