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ELMIRA STAR-GAZETTE Hungarian Aviators to Fly Home [[image]] A return flight to Detroit, by way of Africa, the south Atlantic and South America, is planned by the Hungarian flyers, George Endres, inset top, and Capt. Alexander Magyar, inset below, heroes of the Detroit to Budapest flight. Map shows route they took to Budapest and dotted line, return journey. Sister Mary's Kitchen Tomorrow's Menu BREAKFAST: Yellow plums, cereal, cream, bacon and tomato sandwiches, milk, coffee. LUNCHEON: Onions in cream on toast, ham and potato salad, rye bread, lemonade. DINNER: Casserole of lamb, mashed potatoes, Kentucky wonder beans, endive and grape fruit salad, blackberry shortcake, milk, coffee. If you are taking a motor trip [[text cut off]] ing water. In cities the water is carefully guarded for purity, but in remote country districts and villages there sometimes is inadequate supervision of the water supply. Clearness and palatableness do not guarantee purity in water and much discomfort, if not actual illness, may follow drinking impure water. Contaminated water is a great disease carrier, so unless you are sure it is absolutely pure, take the precaution of boiling it or use distilled water. Water which has been boiled for 20 minutes is sterilized and safe for drinking. The intense heat of boiling drives out air and until air is again mixed with the water, it will taste fit. Many people object to boiled water on this account [[text cut off]] Lepers Future Now No Longer Without Hope Better Methods of Treatment Found to Result in More Patients Being Cured of Disease - Total of 91 Discharged At Leprosarium Pronounced no longer a menace to the public health, two persons formerly afflicted with leprosy have been released from the National Leper Home at Carvile, La., Dr. Hugh S. Cumming, Surgeon General of the United States Public Health Service, announced, according to the United States Daily. This brings up to 91 the total number of lepers who have been released from the leprosarium after having received treatment there for leprosy, according to the announcement. It was explained at the Service that one of the lepers just given his freedom had entered the National Leper Home in July of 1926, and the other had entered in July of 1930. Methods of treating people afflicted with this disease, it was said, are being improved gradually, as is shown by the large number of persons formerly afflicted with leprosy who have been released. The following information also was made available: Viewpoint Changing Until comparatively recent years, the aphorism, "once a leper, always a leper," was sufficient to quench all hope in the afflicted and to bring consternation to family, friends and community. Within a generation, however, improved therapeutic measures and more concentrated and rational consideration from scientists have led to the conclusion that the lot of the leper is not necessarily hopeless, and each year increasing numbers of patients are being discharged from leprosariums either as "cured" or are paroled as no longer a menace to public health. As research has continued, a more nearly humane view is being taken of the relative danger of leprosy in a community. That some danger exists, must be admitted; for "leprosy begets leprosy." The danger is not great enough, however, to justify the terror which sometimes pervades a neighborhood upon the public announcement of the discovery of a leper. Methods of Treatment [[text cut off]] leprosy, the "leprosy bacillus," by the Nerwegian scientist, G. Armauer Hansen, cleared the way for the removal of a number of similar but essential differed diseases than leprosy. The diagnosis of leprosy today is made rarely, even by an experienced physicion until the leprosy bacillus actually has been found in the patient. Some of the patients at Carville respond to certain treatments better than do others. Taking chaulmoogra oil by mouth has been the treatment of many inmates of the home. This treatment also is administed by hypodermic injection. Diet And [[text cut off]] By Logan Clender [[image]] Doctor Robert Koch was a young doctor in Germany established in general practice when the scientific world was aflame with the news that germs had been discovered as the cause of certain diseases. Only a few diseases were at first announced as being in this class - anthrax, a disease of sheep occasionally transmitted to man, being one of the first that Pasteur, the great French scientist, proved to be of this nature. But all the fevers and contagious diseases were suspected, and every doctor who had a microscope was trying to make a discovery. Young Doctor Koch was no exception. In spite of the fact that his wife kept nagging at him to build up a big practice, he began studying the exudates from sick people under the microscope. Finally he made a great discovery - the cause of the infection of wounds and of the infection of women after childbirth. Then he tackled tuberculosis, and in 1882 was able to announce that he had discovered the germ which causes it- the tubercle bacillus. This was a great step in advance because doctors were then able to decide for the first time whether a disease was actually tuberculosis or [[text cut off]]
