Show Your Health Sulfa Drugs Bring H Hope pe peTo To Victims of Leprosy I By Dr James W. W V. V Barton BartonI I wonder if many of us know that the sulfa drugs are helping the disease of ot Bible times lep times lep rosy We Ve always have thought of ot I II I leprosy e pro s y as a r rare incurable incurable disease and that that j has been its history history his his- f r tory until re re- re We Ve have rt J chaulmoogra heard of k m oo gr a oil r which has been used with little effect for many years in fact Dr Barton no other method of treatment has been used Not Contagious i In a small magazine the Star published monthly by the patients of the United States Marine hospital hospital hospital hos hos- pital National Carville Carville Car- Car ville yule Louisiana some fac facts of in in- in terest to all of us are made known The at Carville was founded 52 years ago To date nota not nota a single member of the medical or nursing staff has contracted the disease Visitors are admitted admitted admitted admit admit- ted freely nor are arc they required to take special precautions Patients Patients Patients Pa Pa- are permitted to visit their homes semiannually for short periods No scientist in more than recorded cases has been able to infect himself or other human human human hu hu- hu- hu man volunteers by attempted in inoculation inoculation inoculation in- in of the germ the germ the bacil bacil- lus A quoted statement of ot Dr Eric A. A Fennel formerly Associate Professor of Pathology University University University sity of ot Illinois and for 28 years now a member of ot the Board of Hospitals and Settlements supervising supervising supervising super super- the famed at Hawaii says When I first knew many years ago it was a horrid hell hole of ot hopelessness There was practically no no medical at attention attention at- at besides cathartics A little chaulmoogra oil oU was still being being being be be- ing given A Caucasian woman a friend of my wife when I last saw her was sitting in a corner sick trembling protecting her eyes that were going blind from the lI light ht Woman Cured This time a door opened and a woman walked out jauntily full of oC energy and self confidence Her eyes were all right and she knew me at once Her voice was normal normal nor nor- mal and her face showed only whitened skin where the lumps of leprosy had formerly been This and other cures was brought about by the sulfa drugs injected under the skin This is the happiest and most important era for these people since Biblical days ACNE PIMPLES ACNE PIMPLES Acne pimples is one of ot the most distressing and embarrassing embarrass embarrass- ing of ailments S Send nd today for Dr Bartons Barton's helpful booklet on this subject entitled Acne Acne Pim Pim Pimples ples pies enclosing 10 cents and a 3 cent stamp to cover cost of handling handling handling hand hand- ling and mailing to The Salt Lake Tribune-Telegram Tribune Home Service Bureau Salt Lake City 10 Utah |