Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1922-02-28 | Page 45 | Leper Trees Found

IIIO I 1 .! R I RE1 S FOI S l) MANILA. P. I Lepers of the Philippine Phil-ippine laloods are to be cured with the products of their own land, according :o Dr. H. 1 Cole, organic Chemist of the bureau of science, who has juet returned re-turned from an extensive investigation through the aouthern part of the archipelago arch-ipelago where he found In abundance the HudnoearpuB nutchinson. the tree which bears the nut from which chaul-moogra. chaul-moogra. oil Is obtained. This oil is made into ethylester, which has already al-ready been used successfully in the Hawaiian Islands and other plaees in the cure of leprosy.