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Show NEW TREATMENT FREES LEPERS Chaulmoogra Oil Proves Success as a Remedy. CURES IN JAPAN ARE CITED Patients Appear to Be Normal After Two Month' Use of the Discovery-Japanese Discovery-Japanese Doctor Estimates That There' Are 100,000 Persohs In Japan Afflicted With Leprosy Start Mad on Chaulmoogra Plantation In Hawaii Ha-waii to Insure Supply of Oil. The chaulmoogra oil treatmcut for leprosy, evolved by Dr. A. U Dean, president of the University of Hawaii, has produced "rcmarkablo results" la checking the dlseasu In Japan, according accord-ing to Dr. It. Hoyoshtmn, director of the medical college of the Imperial University of Kioto, Jnpan, ln.nn address ad-dress at Honolulu to leading members of the Japanese community. Doctor Hoyoshlmo, who Is studying 'the latest developments In tho specific, said that when report of Doctor Dean's discovery reached Japan, chaulmoogra pll was prepared at tho medical department de-partment of the Kioto university Immediately Im-mediately and experiments wcro mado on thirteen lepers. Two months of treatment wus so effectual, Doctor Uoyoshlnin sold, that It was Impossible for a layman to recognize that the patients ever hnd been afflicted with leprosy. He added: "Our experiences resulted so favorably favor-ably that the medical department of Kioto university has received Innumerable Innumer-able requests from leprosy patients to have the treatment administered to them, but our department has been unable un-able to meet the demand. A large number of leprosy patients ask eagerly eager-ly for the treatment, nnd this very day a great many of them aro waiting for my return." 100,000 Lepers In Japan. Doctor Hoyoshlma cstlmuted that there are 100,000 persons In Jnpan afflicted with leprosy. The fact that chaulmoogra oil Is a curative for leprosy was known In Japan before Doctor Dean's discovery. Doctor Hoyoshlma Hoy-oshlma said, but tho effect of taking tho oil prior to Doctor Dean's experiments experi-ments was so terrible that many persons per-sons preferred to suffer with leprosy rather than submit to the treatment A start has been made here on the chaulmoogra plantation which Is Intended In-tended to Increase the chaulmoogra oil production In order that nn adequate supply might be furnished to the territory ter-ritory and used In the treatment of leprosy. Two thousand chaulmoogra trees have b6cn turned pver to 'the territorial ter-ritorial board of agriculture and forestry by the experimental station of tho Hawaiian Sugar Planters association asso-ciation nnd tho territory has raised 2,000 more. These will be planted nt Wnlnhole, Hawaii, by Charles S. Judd, superintendent of forestry, nnd wlli bo the nucleus of the plantation. Tho progress of tho application of the Dean method at the Kalllil lqprosy etntlnn elimvlni. ttmt In ihn fiiin. station, showing that in tho fourteen four-teen and a half months ended on March 10 last, 0-1 out of tho 183 patients hnd been pnrolcd on recommendation of the attending doctors that tho disease dis-ease had been arrested to such an extent ex-tent that It no longer Is considered dangerous In their cases, Is related In a pamphlet written recently by Doctor Dean and Dr. J. T. McDonald of tho United Stntes public health service. Development of the Cure. Tho pamphlet, published by the American Medical association, said that there had been a well defined development not only In method hut also In tho synthetic production of the fatty acids of chaulmoogra oil. "As has been pointed out, thero is no way of demonstrating that any person has been cured absolutely of leprosy, but the ninety-four patients who havo been paroled aro believed to bo freo from the disease," the pamphlet said. "Up to the present tlmo not ono of the patients paroled since October L 1018, has shown a recurrence of the disease. "It is probably to be expected that occasional cases will show recurrence and have to return for a second course a tMntmftnt Tt la luillnviwl hmFarn, of treatment. It Is believed, however, that the percentage of such returns is going to be low. It would appear that we have methods in hand for holding the disease under control." |