Medicine: Muir on Leprosy

Last month the Leonard Wood Memorial was glad to finance Leprologist Ernest Muir so that he might leave his headquarters in London for an evangelistic tour of U. S. medical centres where leprosy, the subject in which the Memorial is particularly interested, is studied. Dr. Muir, 56, spent 15 years as a medical missionary among Bengal lepers, another 15 years as a research worker in leprosy in Calcutta's School of Tropical Medicine. At present he is Medical Secretary of the British Empire Leprosy Relief Association. In the U. S., Dr. Muir addressed the...

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