When Jonathan Hutchinson pressed his ''Fish theory' in pre-bacteriological days we were inclined to favour it a little because we had in Hangchow the fish sun dried, and decomposition following for lack of sufficient salt used in the curing. A diet of salt fish badly cured may possibly predispose to the disease owing to the deficiency of the vitamins of fresh food now known to be so important for the maintenance of good health. In the early days of our medical mission work we thought the: bacillus entered the system through the skin because the disease appeared first on the exposed parts of the body, face, hands, and feet, and we noticed that those who had always been aceustome~ to wear shoes and stockings ver had the disease on their fee It is said ye are about 1,000,- 000 lepers in pa and if that be so, segregatiol.measures though right in theory are difficult to
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