The Reduction of Leprosy Incidence by Insolation of Infective Cases, Combined with Six-Monthly Surveys of All Contacts to Detect New Cases in an Easily Curable Stage

In 1916, 1917 and 1921 the writer recorded having cleared up comparatively early outpatient cases of leprosy by injection of suitable chaulmoogra and hydnocarpate preparations. Advanced lepromatous cases in the Calcutta Leprosy asylum, however, failed to respond to this treatment. In the second paper the results were illustrated by the appearances before and after treatment, and by a coloured plate showing the breaking up of enormous number of leprosy bacilli in the tissues with or without reactions.