Leprosy Control
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(Clarke, 1933). An article on the control of leprosy could not commence better than with the above quotation. Syphilis, tuberculosis and leprosy are the three diseases which for many decades have been under a social stigma, and of these diseases leprosy least deserves the opprobrium which has been showered upon it. Therefore, before considering the question of the prevention of leprosy, it would not be out of place to make a plea that medical men in their speaking and thinking should adopt the recommendation of the leprosy conference held at Manila in 1931 and drop the word ' leper' from their vocabulary. I stress this particularly for it is not the
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دوره 79 شماره
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تاریخ انتشار 1944