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Show Lepers Made Clean by Vegetable Oi! in Hawaii ANNOUNCEMENT is made at Honolulu, H. I., that complete cures of leprosy are being made at the Kalihi territorial hospital in that city and that within the last few months 20 patients have been paroled without one recur- rence of the disease. Blood tests of the discharged patients have revealed no trace of the leprosy germ. Chaulmoogra oil, obtained from the seeds of the taraxogenes Eurzil, for 50 years known as the specific for leprosy, is the only medicine used In effecting the cures at the Kalihi hospital, hos-pital, the oil having been perfected for the treatment by a refining process discovered by Dr. A. L. Dean, processor proces-sor of chemistry and president of the University of Hawaii. Dr. Harry T. Hollman, formerly in charge of the leprosy investigation station, became convinced con-vinced that chaulmoogra was of great value in treating leprosy, but to obtain results it was necessary to administer large doses for a period of many months. Doctor Hollman decided that if the oil could be reduced to its essential essen-tial properties it would be much more effective. The laboratories of the University of Hawaii are refining all the oil used at Kalihi hospital. |
