The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1889-08-06
4 Reputed Cure for Leprosy.-Where is
the Benevolent Man Caned!fors

Nh. EDrroR: 1t may perhaps give
you pleasure to be able to
notify the natives of the Sandwich
Islands through your columns that
positive cure for leprosy has been
discovered. In q conversation with
an old sailor few days since, the
fact of its cureability was clearly
elucidated and the mOdus operandi
infinitely given. Forty years ago"
said the old salt, I'VE sailed away
from Honolulu with a lot Of raw
hands we had shipped on board, as
we were scarce of men, and obliged
to have help of some kind. We got
well under weigh, before any of these
men came under the Captains eye
for inspection. As you know per-
haps, the sailors in those climates go
very bare about the breast, and upon
the appearance of one of the new re.
cruits before him with his breast ter
ribly spotted with black and yellow
patches, the Captain called a halt
and wanted an explanation The
native could tell him nothing, only
that his whole body was covered in
the same way. How many of you
are in this shape" asked the Cap
tain. Three besides me-" was the
reply, and then my informant was
called up and told to 60 to the sur
geon's chest, make a certain mixture
to rub on the skin of these men, and
certain other compound to take in
ternally at the same time. He was
ordered by the Captain to attend
strictly to these men himself, and
that shortly they would be we'll
Well, he attended them faithfully
obeying the Captains orders to the
letter, rubbing these men daily with
his own hands, and seeing to it that
they took the medicine night and
morning regularly, and in three
months time they were entirely well,
and one of them is now living in
San Francisco, hale and hearty to
attest to his perfect cure, though he
breads to let it be known, that he
was ever a victim to this fell disease.
Forty years ago these cures were
effected and it is most singular that
in this age such a thing has remained
unknown all this long time. 1 OBJ
tanned full description of the medi-
cines given and all that was to be
known about it from the old man,
and now l write you this desiring to
know in what way it would be best
to make it known to the Hawaiian
Government, so that it could be i'm
put to use to lessen the /
great curse that has for so long hung
over those islands. The medium I /
shall not keep made up for sale, as .
it could be easily analized and so
could be made of little profit.
What l would desire to do would .
be to sell the secret to the govern /
ment for a certain sum, which it
would be well worth its while to
give [ might perhaps be benovo-
lent and give it to them, only 1 am
a very poor person myself and have
not $500 in the world. There must
be wealth enough there to buy such
a secret, and not think a few thou
sands too much to give for relief from
the most loathsome and nauseating
Of all diseases, which is universally
thought to be incurable. I could
get the mans testimony in San
Francisco who was cured so long
since [ am convinced, by properly
representing It's importance to him. F
Any communication to this address
will reach me as late as to the mid
lie OF September, but after that I
could not now tell where I should
De, though you might direct after
hat time to Mrs. Z. C.. HedIey.
Brockport, New York, my old home.
1913 18th Avenue.
East Oakland. +
July 18th, 1859.