Word: leprous
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...healthy Christians who own pig 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...
Hail to able Pathologist & Bacteriologist Charles Warren Duval and to others who grew organisms from leprous tissues. Nonetheless, there has been valid doubt that they isolated and actually reproduced the leprosy bacillus which very closely resembles the tuberculosis bacillus...
Paris was the city of the world; Paris was the capital of France; Paris was a dull and dowdy city. The Sun King looked on the leprous walls and shuddered; he would build a new and sparkling place, a bright and spangled royal home. So he called to him Mansard and the world came to know of gabled roofs, and he called to him Colbert and France was stirred by her first fear of the Bourbonic plague. Versailles was piled high and the long hedges moved out around the fountains. Colbert shook his head and brought out great books...
...cases are at large: 4) the germ of leprosy closely resembles the germ of tuberculosis; 5) leprosy is not especially communicable, far less so than syphilis; 6) cleanliness and general hygiene prevent leprosy's spread; 7) lepers' children are not born leprous, but catch the disease when very young, and hence the desirability of providing for these untainted ones; 8) leprosy is being cured; 9) money is needed to hasten cures, to further research, and to care for segregated lepers; 10) the Leonard Wood Memorial for the Eradication of Leprosy (Perry Burgess, president), which organized last week...
...collegiate education. To merely recognizes the fact that it should not exclude the arts but join with them in reducing collegiate thought to a mean of common sense. Any sentimental traditions, no matter how venerable, that exclude from the college curriculum, all but scholastic abstractions untainted by the leprous touch of realism, should never stand in the way of such additions as this...