"There is a Chinese leper hospital here, where the lepers pay $50 or $100, stay 100 days, and take about 16 kinds of secret Chinese remedies. Some of them appear to be temporarily improved, but the ones we have heard about have later relapsed."

Source: Dr. R. W. Dunlap, "Chefoo, Shantung", The Leper Quarterly, 2 (1927): 33.

Entry created 11 Jan, 2007.