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Show Holds Hope for Lepers Vr. Paul A. Mellhenny has reported to tiie American Medical association on preventive methods that may head off many of the frightful deformities long associated with leprosy. At the national leprosarium at Carville. I.a., corrective treatments consisting of massage, baths, exercises and ultraviolet ultra-violet irradiation have been used with success In treating the misshapen hands and feet even of cases of Ions standing, says the specialist. Since little preventive work of this character char-acter has ever been attempted in leper colonies, physicians are watching th progress of these corrective methods with great interest. So many deformities deform-ities have been improved that in time cures of the less severe deformities are not regarded as impossible. |