The Strange Case of Leprosy

Dr. Emmo Gehr has the rare distinction of having passed e:rami/wtion, both in medicine and in Oriental languages at the University oj Berlin. Rence he possesses unusual quali/,ica.tions for the study oj m.edical problems ,in Asia. Tho'ugh still quite yowng, he has made u, 1'l(I1I'W for himself in lepr08Y research and in 1939 wa,s 0716 of the founde'rs of the [,eprosy Study Group in the German Research Council. His wife, D1'. Blisabeth Geh1', r/Jceived her medical degree at Hamburg University and p'ract'iced medicine in Berlin. After their marriage the Geh:rs comb'ined thei'r forces in th6 stmggie against leprosy atld studied the disease in Rumania, Bulgaria, Tltrkey, Greece, Spain, and Portugal. Since spring 191,1 they have bee1l engaged in the 8tudy of it in the Orient and are at p'resent liv'ing in Tokyo.-K.M.