Word: chaulmoogra
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Chaulmoogra...
...Japan, water chestnuts in China, hops in Bohemia, nuts in England. He brought avocados from Hawaii, mangoes from Bombay, onions from Egypt, mangosteens (a pineapple-apricot-orange-flavored fruit with a dark, tough rind) from Queensland and Java, chayotes ("a delicious vegetable ... of the cucumber family") from Jamaica, chaulmoogra (a leprosy remedy) from Burma. In 1906-07, Fairchild and his staff distributed some 800 tung-oil trees (oil used in varnishes and paints) to pioneer growers in the U. S. South and Southwest...
...increased attack on this ancient disease. "Tuberculosis is more infectious than leprosy," declared Dr. Muir. But leprosy is more amenable to treatment. Drugs arrest the progress of leprosy, but they do not cure. They are simply "useful adjuncts" to good food and plenty of vitamins. Just as useful as chaulmoogra oil, upon which hopes have risen high, is "any kind of counterirritant. Acids painted on the leper's body sometimes cause the cells to react, multiply, and eat up the bacilli...
Last week Medicine generally learned the name of Dr. Richard Wrenshall, professor of chemistry at the University of Hawaii.* In a flat-topped, white building overlooking his university's experimental farms he has compounded a preparation of chaulmoogra oil which promises to be a better treatment for leprosy than standard chaulmoogra derivatives. Governor Lawrence M. Judd of the Territory of Hawaii heard of Dr. Wrenshall's work, asked for a report, published it last week...
...standard treatments for leprosy has been to inject ethyl-esters of chaulmoogra oil into a muscle with a large bore syringe. This has been painful...