A Possible Cure for Leprosy
Scientists are beginning to claim that they are about to find a cure for leprosy in a certain kind of poisonous fish that is found in some of the Japanese waters. Many of them have been thinking, because of the prevalence of leprosy in quarters where much of the flesh of the fish is used for food, that the eating of fish had something to do with the producing of the leprosy; and following the homeopathic formula, Similia similibus curantur, they have been looking to the fish to find a medicine that would destroy the poison of the leprosy, and they claim that they have found it. Some of the wisest of these scientists are also telling us that if we want to avoid many of these loathsome diseases, such as the leprosy, it is well to curtail our appetites for flesh foods in general as well as fish.