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Show shrouded In the white village that squata under the frowning nun parts of Moiokai and In those other little cities of the "living dead" where the patient, heroic work goes forward In spits of repulsive obstacles and where victory j over the ancient scourge seems in i sight, according to Uioae who bring out: word. LEPROSY CURABLE 8Y CHAULMQOGRA TREATMENT This Much Seems Assured From Results Obtained in Hawaiian Islands SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 5. From the melancholy shores of MoloaU and other Pacific Isolation colonies, new specific bactericide for the leper bacillus, ba-cillus, that stubborn, mysterious mor-tifier mor-tifier of the flesh which has challenged chal-lenged and baffled medicine through the centuries. The curativa property of Chaulmoo-gra Chaulmoo-gra oil haa been recognised for some time, but it has only recently been refined re-fined and chemically combined to overcome its nauseous affect when taken internally a serious handicap to succesful treatment. It is with this further refinement of fatty acid derivatives, now largely applied ap-plied by injection in muscles and veins, that cures have been speeded and medical researchers have been enthused. EXPERIMENTS SUCCESSFUL. Among the foremost of these experimenters exper-imenters is Dr. K. U Walker, tropical disease authority working with the Hooper foundation for medical research re-search in the University of California. lr. Walker, together with Dr. Sweeney, Swee-ney, demonstrated that the curative agent in the Chaulmoogra fattay acids is a bactericide 100 per cent more active than carbolic acid in the effective effec-tive destruction of the lepra bacillus. He is now conducting experiments with new Chaulmoogra derivatives snd combinations upon lepers in this ! country -and most states have some, I while a few have inany-declartng that, !ln addition to its application to the i leprous, "it offers the most promising i lead thus far developed in" combating tuberculosis." CURES AFFECTED. Thus far, treatment in this country and the Pacific colonies ia confined to isolation hospitals, the material being made by experts in well equipped laboratories, lab-oratories, and for many reasons not yet commercially available nor part of gen-jersl gen-jersl medical practice. I Beneficial results are apparent, it is declared, in a few months and many of 'the curea have ben effected, in a year jt fifteen months. That tells the bare scientific strue-i strue-i ture of the story which is brining hope to hitherto hopeless myriads the world over. The human part of the story U well hope of regeneration Tor the most horribly hor-ribly afflicted is going out to the lepers lep-ers of the earth. Leprosy. It Is being demonstrated, is curable. Not In every case, perhaps, but medical science gives assurance that the disease need not be the Inevitable -living death" it has been accounted since the cry "unclean. unclean'-echoed unclean'-echoed down from medieval times. Kor proof, and Justification of the hope. Dr. J. T. McDonald, director of leprosy Investigation station, I'nlted States health service, Honolulu, reports: Seventy-eight rases In Hawaiian Island leprosarlums have been discharged dis-charged as cured within the past two years, a considerable fraction of those confined for treatment. In many others the disease haa been checked and it Is only a question of time until they will be released. Similar success ia reported from I other-leper stations. j OIL BRINGS CURE. Thes cures are ascribed to Chaulmoogra Chaul-moogra oil, a peculiar substance secured se-cured from the put of a Burma tree, in whose fatty acid scientific experimenters experi-menters belleva they ar, close to the |