To relieve and mitigate the distress of persons suffering from behcets disease but without prejudice to the foregoing: 1. to promote the study of the cause and treatment of behcets syndrome and allied conditions. 2. to gather and publish information useful to sufferers and the general public to co-operate with the medical allied profession and any other societies or bodies having a similar aim to provide financial help where necessary and praticabel. 3. to promote the relief of poverty among such sufferers.