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many cases of beriberi occuring in Hongkong are probably the latter, that the age and sex incidence of the disease is
against any theory of grain intoxication and that the post-
-ibility of a venereal origin of a proportion of the cases
should not be lost sight of.Contagion by an insect interme- -diary and contagion by clase contact(too close to allow of
contagion in hospital) would he near of kin in the evolution
of a germs' contagious faculty.
WORK IN CONTEMPLATION AN OPSONIC TREATMENT FOR LEPROSY.
Afew months ago I sketched out a plan of some work which r
intended to do in this direction, but it has been found at
present impossible to get or with it because opsonic work
is incompatile with the frequent interruptions necessitated
by the routine work which is done. However I hone to be able
to go ahead with the matter in the Autumn and should be glad
of any criticism or advice from the Tropical Diseases Research
Fund Committee.
It is well known that the tubercle and leprosy becillus
are in many ways closely allied. Moreover lepers give the
tuberculin reaction. It is therefore reasonable to suppose
that if tuberculin was administered to the leper under the
control of the opsonic index it would produce curative results.
Moreover leprous nodules contain such a great mass of
bacilli that they could probably be used after appropriate
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