Salt Lake Telegram | 1915-11-14 | Page 15 | Lepers Cured by Chaulmoogra

L Lepers pers Cured by Chaulmoogra Oj Q F FROM FRO ROM reports report made to the Untied United States Slates Public Health Service by Dr Victor G G. G Heiser Helser q the San Lazaro Hospital for Lepers at Manila It looks as if a cure for leprosy had been found For Dr Heiser has discharged twenty twenty- three patients as cured The treatment consists of r hypodermic hypodermic n mic ie Injections of chaulmoogra 1 oil This Is an essence essence derived from a tree of the Indian plum f family mily that grows glOws in the he East Indies and in Brazil Its' Its use uge was suggested several years year ago by Dr Di L. L Duncan Buckley Duckley o of at row Now I York one of the ilia foremost see ane- in the world Eighty aU u have been treated with It for I years and in many of the case cases f yet cured it has brought abc abr marked Improvement tl Tho present stage of the the ment meat writes Dr Heiser dec do dot warrant a claim that a spee sped h leprosy has been found shows that it gives more const favorable results than any any method of treatment that has our attention It holds out t L that further improvement I J I brom brought ht about J I J q