Word: chaulmoogra
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Occasional cures are affected-in Hawaii, with Chaulmoogra oil; in the U. S. with injections of bichloride of mercury, with arsenic; X-ray treatment affects temporary relief. Lepers are daily boiled in hot baths; given strychnine; put on a diet. After a period of eight years, the disease sometimes vanishes...
...Quite recently, a new epoch has opened. For centuries it has been known that lepers found some relief from rubbing themselves with chaulmoogra...
...Chaulmoogra seeds, from which the oil is extracted, are a product of a tree which grows freely in Burma, Bengal and Assam. The oil with a little caustic soda added, yields sodium chaulmoograte, and free chaulmoogric acid is obtained by the addition of hydrochloric acid. If a little alcohol is poured into this chaulmoogric acid ethyl chaulmoograte is obtained, that is, ethyl estermiscible with blood...
...These ethyl ester preparations, containing the active principles of chaulmoogra oil, are injected intramuscularly and intravenously. The injections; usually made once a week, give rise to a febrile and local reaction, and under the microscope it is seen that the lepa bacilli in the tissues break up "and are destroyed. After repeated treatment the lesions completely disappear, and the bacilli are apparently destroyed once...
...Montreal Star. Cancer is the great enigma of medical science. Many of the most dreaded diseases have been brought under control or greatly mitigated-smallpox with vaccine, typhoid fever with chlorination, diphtheria with antitoxin, tuberculosis with an all-round hygienic program, yellow fever with mosquito control, leprosy with chaulmoogra oil, diabetes with insulin. But cancer goes marching on with no apparent check. Indeed, the cancer death rate in the registration area of the United States has risen gradually but steadily until in 1921 it was 86 per 100,000 population, which would indicate that there are in the continental United...