Some impressions of Sungei Buloh Leper Hospital under Japanese occupation.
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The Conference was, ·at this time, a peculiarly appropriate one. It met at a stage in which many of our ideas about the disease are in the melting pot. It represented the resumption, after the preoccupations of a world war, of international linkage against leprosy. In its friendly atmosphere and well-planned arr!l.llgements it achieved a number of significant contributions both to mutual understanding and to the furtherance of our control of the disease.
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- Leprosy review
دوره 18 1 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 1947