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Show Curability of Leprosy. Unna of Hamburg, like many other conspicuous dermatologists, is of tho opinion that thoro is a possibility of curing leprosy. In his report read be-lore be-lore the International Medical congress at Lisbon -he states that ho has been successful in attacking cutaneous leprosy, lep-rosy, not macular or anaesthic lep-rosv, lep-rosv, and gives his experience, gained from treating sixty lepers during a period of twenty-two vears. His sufferers suf-ferers were private patients, more or less well to do, all loading a useful life and wishing most emphatically to be cured so that they could again tako up their several occupations. This fact is important, Unna thinks, in contrast to what is obsorved iu the patients of leper hospitals, for example, in Norwav, who are very poor people, coming from tho worst kind of surroundings, shunned by their neighbors, and finding find-ing in the hospital. an asylum with all possible comforts cleanliness, sympathy sympa-thy and freedom from the cares of poverty pov-erty and the daily fight against hardships. hard-ships. Externall', Unna advises hot baths of natural waters containing sulphur and sodium or potassium, but especially especial-ly his so-called ink bath (Djntenbad), containing ferrous sulphate and tannic acid; the washing with carbolic acid or groon soap: massage and pressure upon the skin: the use of pyrogallol and rosorcin, chysarobin and ichthyol, and later tho use of Paquelin's cautery. Internally, the author uses ichthyol, camphor, salicylic acid and chaulmugra oil, which he calls tho specific par excellence ex-cellence for cutaneous leprosv. New York Medical Journal. |