"The China Medical Journal" this month renders useful service by devoting a full issue to the exposition of the history of leprosy in China and of the steps which should be taken to tide this country of a terrible scourge: Of special interest is the article by Dr.-Ernest Muir on the treatment of the disease. Dr. Muir is a well-known research worker who has done much in contributing to the knowledge of work-jets in anti-leprosy clinics. Nowadays there is hope for lepers be-Jeause of the discovery of the boneficial properties of: the chaulmoogra plant. Due attention should therofore be paid to Dr. James Maxwell's address on "Ridding China of Lerosy." It was delivered last month to the annual meeting of the Chinese Mission to Lepers and it is reprinted {for permanent record in this number lof the Medical Journal. It is to be hoped that Dr. Maxweil's dream of Jan Anti-Leprosy Council for China will not be long in materializing. The disease is no longer une nquerble, 20 there is very inducement for organized effort to defeat it.
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