LEPROSY CURE.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXIX, Issue 5294, 2 July 1928, Page 2

LEPROSY CURE.

MARVELLOUS BRITISH DISCOVERY

RESULTS AT .LEPER, MISSION.

“The new cure for leprosy, discovered by British scientists led by Sir Leonard Rogers, has, so far, produced marvellous results, and if the dise.ase is caught in the early stages cures are effected in from six to eight months. Over 400 people have been discharged, cured, from the asylums in India under the Leper Mission’s control since the introduction of the new treatment,” stated the Rev. R. J. Gru.dy, of the Leper Mission, to ,a representative of “The Dominion” at Wellington on Tuesday last. Mr Grundy explained that the new cure is administered by injection of the derivatives of hydnocarpus (GhauL moogra oil). More recent developments of the treatment consist of injections of the pure oil. but it is not yet certain whether the pure oil or ethyiesters is the more effective. Experiments with both are being carried out at the present time in the leper h'omes of the missiom Patients are now being discharged cured every month.

Sir. Leonard,! Rodgers is a member of the executive and of the Council of the mission, apd his opinion, stated in writing to Mr Grundy, is that the new specific is one the medical discoveries of the age, curing as it does a disease that has baffled doctors for. Hundreds of years.