Word: chaulmoogra
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...decided to take the job at Carville for one year because of his interest in dermatology. But he stayed year after year as staff doctor, then as executive officer and finally as director. At first. he could give the patients only humanity and the traditional palliative, chaulmoogra oil. ("We used to take the oil three ways," a patient recalls. "Externally, internally and eternally...