Leprosy and Fish Eating
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of leprosy. On the same page another proposition is put forward, namely, that the bacillus of leprosy is, like that of tuberculosis, well nigh ubiquitous, and that it assumes activity under the stimulus of some ingredient supplied by fish in an early stage of decomposition ; having once assumed such activity, it can reproduce itself indefinitely in the tissues of the human body, and may be transferred from one person to another, if taken into the stomach
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