" Fish Diet and Leprosy."

Abstract

New York, March 29, 1897. To the Editor: —In your issue of March 27, under heading Public Health, a paragraph labeled Fish Diet and Leprosy, you quote from the London Medical Press , giving credit to Dr. Hansen of Bergen of some views of my own, which were published originally in the University Medical Magazine , January, 1896. The article was translated by Hansen into Norwegian. I sent also a reprint of it to the Sei-I-Kwai medical journal, from which Japanese paper the London Press quotes. Whether it is originally the Sei-I-Kwai which attributes these views to Hansen, I do not know; it is not likely; it may be the London Medical Press . At any rate, there is here a slovenliness of medical journalism and literature that is really remarkable. I do not see why these views should seem so very new to most leprologists . I began to expose this theory six