Further Advances in Lepro
p. 92 · Read in the full issue
Treatment
WHEN the annual appeal w made recently in New Zealai for funds to aid in the treatment
leper patients, the great success -
the new sulphone drug DDS (dia ino-diphenyl-sulphone) was seen.
But although DDS is proving great healer, the after-effects of t disease, in the form of atrophi muscles, have until now remaim Mr. P. J. Twomey, of t Lepers Trust Board, returning frc New Caledonia in November, ; ported that a French scientist attach to the Ducos Leper Hospital the has developed an electrical machi which has already proved higl effective in aiding the complete mi cular rehabilitation of the patie: The Lepers’ Trust Board of Ni Zealand has now donated six of the machines to Ducos, and others v go to the Makogai hospital in F DDS and the new machines op up a new hope for complete cure this widespread disease in the Pad Islands.
Miss Doreen Atkinson, newly i pointed to the Baptist Missic Baiyer River, NG Highlands, I Sydney on the Bulolo at the end October.