The Archive · 1902

Doctors Discuss Leprosy

London vid Bombay, 28th November Dr. Jonathan Hutchinson, M.D., LID., F-R.S,, the eminent consulting surgeon, who is about to visit India and Ceyton for the purpose of making research into the sources of leprosy, has read a paper at a meeting in connection with the Prince of Wales' Leprosy Fund, expounding his theory which is that leprosy is due to badly cured fish. Sir Juseph Fayrer, K.CS1L, LL.D. IND. F.RS., Physician Extraordinary to the King and formerly "Professor at the Medical College, Calcutta, and others, eulogised the paper but dissented from its conclusions.—Reuter.

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