Show I I 1 OSY Gf M BAffLE I ay WATSON ly WATSON DAVIS DAYIS WASHINGTON t UP- UP A maatta mass maa attack tt tta k on lono ono o ot ot the theo oldest dc t and most st t diseases dienes of ot mankind leprosy n is' w n n progress Thousands upon ands of ot leprosy germs aro to tob b grown In fn order that chemists and n ns may learn the most intimate inti inti- mate secrets ot of thu this disease S Scientific Scientific- veterans 1 s of another battle bat bat- tle tk the against IJ n called culled to do battle The medical research committee of or the all Tuberculosis association 1 d d ded d by Dr William Charles Ito oC ot o tho National Institute of or 31 alth of or the United d S Stes ti public i service at the tho request at of oC the 7 r. r 1 rd Wood od memorial has un- un t an In of or leprosy a- a ann aan an extension of ot Its Us tuberculosis arch GERMS CERMS O OF SAME FAMILY that t ci tuberculosis and J Korma nuI that are arc mem- mem br barof f of or tIn tho same amo tanH family I I b bacilli n as aJ the tha g germs of or leprosy are aro cAU called d. d actually grow In tho same C U of or th tho human body the tto mono- mono aa as the tho In more ro common tubercle b bacilli t reports come from la tn n this country and abroad 4 lepers aro are often orten dl dich discharged t a an a apparently J cured Tho The o of ot chaulmoogra oil has been praised nn and tills this ha has b been en credited rith curative curativo powers pow But Dut special special- 1 U a are aro not convinced d that it lives JIves uto vo o its reputation THE HE NEW ATTACK Therefore ro this new flew attack The Th fifteen tn to twenty strains of or Tepra b bacilli that havo have been cultivated cultivate from human cases will bo grown in quantity The masses of or germs will b L taken to tho the Sterling chemical laboratory at Yale university where rc l rehor Treat B. B Johnson JohnlSon and his n associates will analyze them just a athey as th they y picked tubercle bacilli to chemIcal chemical chem chern- ical pieces with startling startling- r results m 1 tuberculosis germs these chem chem- IsLe bLi found the tho worlds world's first poisonous poison poison- ous sugar which kills animals nr and does docs not harm tho un- un ct infected d. d They found a D. fat tat that c contained no living germs whatever bit nevertheless produces tho tu tub tubercles tu- tu b or cell or-cell cell clumps characteristic otho tho disease By breaking up tho the bacillus Into their chemical parts some of oC u peculiarities wit will bo discovered Ao Io hlo then eventually c new weapons capons n against leprosy III will be bo developed eloped JU t an aa It Itis Is Is hoped that new treat treat- m for or tuberculosis will arise from tho the similar experimental work 11 nw W In progress I. I |