Letters: TIME to Legion

Sirs:

It will interest you to know that TIME has been instrumental in introducing the new anti-gonorrheal treatment by Dr. Colston of Johns Hopkins into the French Foreign Legion.

The medication was so clearly described in TIME, May 17 that we could employ the method immediately without waiting for more medical details.

Blennorrhagie being one of the most frequent infections amongst our men, we immediately proceeded to use the French drug "Rubiozol" instead of the American "Pronty-lin" and an investigation by the chief medical officer here is under way and will be reported upon...

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