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TREATING LEPROSY.

BRITISH CHEMICAL TRIUMPH. A permanent cure for the scourge of leprosy is anticipated from the results of the latest trials in London with chemical injections. Several cases under treatment are showing marked improvement. a chemical research expert stated recently, and the leprosy bacilli have entirely disanpeared from certain skin areas in which they were previously vefrv numerous. The expert explained that the basic agent used in the amelioration of len- , rous conditions is chaulmoogra oil. obItained from a tree which grows in (Assam. Burma, and Siam. At first this i oil was taken inwardly in a crude state as a cure, but subsequent investigation j and' therapeutic trials have confirmed the assumption that better results can Iho obtained from the inpection of the oil’s derivatives, its ethyl esters. i This acid, or Moogrol injection is now being' very widely used. Its fame ilias spread to the Honolulu leper island ■ where thousands of intramuscular inje.c-iti-ons arc being made, with the result I that, according to the latest advice, j actually 50 per cent, of the lepers treated have been released on parole as I being clinically cured and non-infec-|tious. The drug is'destroying the living I leprous bacteria in the body. I “It is a triumph for British chemical (research,” the expert concluded, “and (even on the results of treatments in 1 London, we are looking forward to the perfection of a permanent cure for leprosy with the greatest confidence.”

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Taranaki Daily News, 23 August 1922, Page 10

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TREATING LEPROSY. Taranaki Daily News, 23 August 1922, Page 10

TREATING LEPROSY. Taranaki Daily News, 23 August 1922, Page 10

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