INTERNATIONAL LEPROSY LEGISLATION.

International Journal of Leprosy

Work in connection with the immunology of leprosy has been pursued from two viewpoints. One is that of the laboratory worker, searching for a means of specific identification of · the causative germ of the disease, with relation to micro-organisms cultivated from patients. The other is that of the clinical worker who seeks a method of specific diagnosis of cases. This second aspect of the probl...

International Leprosy Association.

To all members of the International Leprosy Association the death of our much respected la te President, Dr. Jose M. M. Fernandez, came as a great shock, and was received with a sense of tremendous loss. Tributes to Dr. Fernandez have b een made elsewhere. I wish now to express my deep sense of apprecia tion at the confidence that the International Leprosy Association has shown in me in electin...

International Leprosy Association Global Project on the History of Leprosy.

International Journal of Leprosy Official Organ of the International Leprosy Association

In a review of the recent history and present status of leprosy classification which appeared earlier in this department,! emphasis was laid on the need of a full understanding, by aU leprologists concerned with that matter, of the South American system if an acceptable solution of the present situation is to be reached at the Madrid congress. As an aid to that end, it was stated, we planned to...

International Journal of Leprosy Official Organ of the International Leprosy Association

The relation of allergic and immunologic phenomena in leprosy and tuberculosis has been the subject of much speculation and intensive study. Since Fernandez,l-in 1939, published his observations on the comparative study of the reactions to tuberculin and to lepromin in different subjects, many contributions to the subject have been made and great hopes have been entertained of the possibility o...