Dr. Guy Faget. Image Courtesy of the National Hansen's Disease Museum, Permanent Collection. Carville, LA.

Dr. Guy Faget was the Medical Officer in Charge at the National Leprosarium from 1940-1947. Faget discovered the effectiveness of sulphone drugs in leprosy treatment.

The new drug regiment was immortalized as the "Miracle at Carville" in a best-seller by patient Betty Martin who was successfully treated and released from the hospital, along with her husband Harry, in the late 1940s.