Leprosy : summary of recent work no. 6.

Date:
1925
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Credit: Leprosy : summary of recent work no. 6. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    that a few more years of vigorous enforcement will stem the tide.” About 5,000 remain at Culion, while a few hundred have been discharged in recent years on parole, nearly all since the improved treatments were given. The total death rate of the colony compares favourably with the average Filipino town, and “ the results of improved methods of treatment seem to warrant the opinion that many cases of leprosy are curable ;’’ this has induced new hope in the lepers. Lank. Murr (E.). Report on a Visit to the Leper Island of Culion and on the Anti-Leprosy Work in the Philippine Islands.—Jndian Med. Gaz. 1925. June. Vol. 60. No.6. pp. 261-264. The author points out that in India, with 30 times the population, and probably three times the leper rate per mille, the problem is very different from that in the Philippines, where such important work has been done in the great Culion settlement, including much pathological research. He found very few cases of the first, pre-infective stage of leprosy, although a number of such cases are being treated in the recently opened Say Lazaro hospital at Manilla, where cases, not positive bacteriologically, are now admitted for treatment, the positive ones alone being sent to Culion, and he advocates the establishment of further leper clinics in the Philippine towns on the lines of those being opened in India. He indicates also the weak point of Culion, where so many infections of healthy children have taken place owing to their not being separated from their leper parents at birth, but this is likely to be remedied soon. Bote GRAHAM (J. D.). Le plan de campagne contre la lépre aux Indes.— Bull. Office Internat. d’ Hyg. Publique. 1925. June. Vol. 17. No. 6. pp. 627-628. This note quotes from the appeal issued by the Viceroy of India in January last on behalf of the British Empire Leprosy Relief Association, the objects being to encourage the study of the causation and treatment of the disease, to establish clinics for early. treatment and isolation refuges for the advanced crippled cases. At the end of March 44 lakhs £30,000) had been received. [The total now amounts to 18 lakhs. | Lak. READ (B. E.). The Nature of the Leucocytosis induced in the Rabbit by the Administration of Chaulmoogra Oil and its Derivatives.— China Med. Jl. 1925. July. Vol. 39. No. 7. pp. 605-612. [9 refs. ] The action of chaulmoogra oil has for long been explained by some workers as depending on a marked “ leucocytic action.”’” Experimental work on rabbits showed that treatment with chaulmoogra oil or ethyl-hydnocarpate administered by various methods produces little effect on the red corpuscles in small doses, but in very large ones some haemolysis and reduction of the red corpuscles occurs. Of greater importance are the leucocyte changes; toxic doses produced diminution of the leucocytes, but therapeutic ones caused an increase of about 100 per cent. which remained to a considerable extent
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