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Show Cured a Leper. For for the first time in history,, it is said, a leper will be ordered from a lazaretto completely cured. This week the Louisiana leper's home at Indian Camp, which is in charge of Sisters of Charity, will discharge one of its patients, a Creole Cre-ole boy, a native of Xew Orleans, aged 15, who has beeeu afflicted with leprosy for four years and who has been under treatment at Indian Camp for nearly .two years. When he went to the asylum his body was the color of coffee and was covered with leprous ulcers; ul-cers; his face was blotched, puckered up with open sores; he had no eyebrows nor eye lashes. Xow he is clean to look at; his face is clear, with a slight touch of color; his eyebrows and eye lashes have grown, his eye is clear instead of glassy and he has regained control of his facial muscles. Five more patients are on the road to recovery recov-ery and will be discharged within a year. It is said that the treatment which has caused such results is nothing new. but simply the persistent per-sistent application of the treatment used for leprosy lep-rosy since the world began. The only difference is that in the Louisiana home the disease has been treated steadily, systematically and constantly. Absolute cleanliness, pure food and pleasant surroundings sur-roundings as far as possible are provided. . . : i -. |