Word: chaulmoogra
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...point out that Leprosy is not only treated with chaulmoogra-oil, but also with gold compounds. This treatment has been introduced after the experiences gained by that of tuberculosis on a similar base, to which latter disease, Leprosy is related...
...week's Leper Mission meeting Dr. George W. McCoy, director of the Hygienic Laboratory of the U. S. Public Health Service, was brave enough to be pessimistic about reported cures of leprosy. He was for long director of the Leprosy Research Station at Molokai. As others, he injected chaulmoogra oil into the veins of lepers. The oil caused the lepers terrific pain. Often they fought against its use. Yet it seemed to stop the rodent, rotting, eating course of the disease. Chaulmoogra oil and its esters are the only medicines doctors know to treat leprosy...
...blocked the veins and choked off the blood stream. Since bacillus leprae exists in the circulating blood as well as in the organs and tissues, a destructive agent that could be released directly into the blood stream was desirable. Hitherto the treatment of leprosy has consisted of injections of chaulmoogra oil into the muscles, which is a less direct attack on the microbe. As now perfected, hydnocarpus oil has a 100% efficiency in the early stages of the disease, and 30% in the advanced stages...
...Popularly thought of as the "leper island" and called "The Land of the Living Death." Actually, the Molokai leper colons -made famous through the writings of Robert Louis Stevenson and by the successful experiments there with chaulmoogra oil, leprosy specific-occupies only a small triangle of land around the isolated village of Kalaupapa, inaccessible save by an arduous path which is easily guarded. Only about 40 lepers now remain at the colony, many having been discharged in recent years after chaulmoogra oil treatment. Molokai itself is fifth in size of the Hawaiian group, having an area about one-fifth...
...basis of the treatment for lepers that is bringing the most encouraging results is the ethylesters of chaulmoogra oil. The treatment varies in different countries, but the general results are most helpful...