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Last week a tiny ray of hope came from the National Leprosarium at Carville, La. which has been trying out Promin, one of the first sulfa drugs used against tuberculosis (the germs of the two diseases are much alike). In three years 32,000 daily injections were given to 137 leper volunteers. Result: 58% improved. In 10% of those treated over a year, leprosy bacteria disappeared; in another 30%, bacteria were reduced in number. (The tendency among untreated lepers is for bacteria to increase...
...Paulo Red Cross worker recently investigated the leprosaria, substantiated many of the chronic complaints, and caused the firing of leprosarium director Dr. Sales Gomes. Likely result of the new hubbub: the sacking of his successor, Dr. Nelson de Campos...
...treated for body lice, sinus trouble, hardening of the arteries, a broken hip. At last doctors at Presbyterian Hospital, after treating him off & on for two years, diagnosed his most important ailment. Leprosy is extremely rare-there are only about 350 cases (mostly from coastal cities) in the U.S. leprosarium in Louisiana (TIME...
Periodically there were mild panics in the Cebu Leprosarium, and once several hundred of the patients escaped and fled to the hills. They knew that the Japs shoot lepers without mercy. Tall, typically Irish Father Francis O'Donnell, their pastor, followed them, assured them that the Lord protects the afflicted, got them to go back to the Leprosarium, where three nuns tend them...
...rule, Protestants forget their saints, but last week Protestants in Manhattan honored Mary Reed, a gently indomitable old lady in India who is the greatest living apostle to the lepers. The occasion was the 50th anniversary of her heading Chandag Leprosarium in the Himalaya foothills...