The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1893-05-08
MAKING GOOD PROGRESS.
DIR. GoTo TALKS OF HIS LEPER
CURE.
Hawaiians Difficult to Treat Properly
Two Patients Doing Well-Not an
Experiment.

In Toxic, Yokohoma, kioto, and
other of the large cities Of Japan, there
are large chemical laboratories filled
with professors and pupils eager for
the study Of analytical chemistry and
bactcrology There are hospitals,
also FIR the investigation and treatment
of contagious and infectious diseases.
Young Japanese, fresh from Paris and
Berlin, where they have studied under
me most distinguished micrusCoplsts of
Frtnce and Germany and under the
tutcage of Koch and Pasteur, have
patiently sought knowledge for which
they were peculiarly bent to continue
their studies here. Their well known
sensitiveness to shape and color fits the
japanese to be par eXcellance, a
searcher in the mysteries Of the micro
scope, and it is with one of these, DR..
that G)tO, our people now are dealing
with, in the cure Of leprosy.
A STAR reporter waited upon the
doctor yesterday and found him a p lite
thoroughly Japahesque gentleman OF
thirty-fve years. After waiting for some
time for the dismissal of patients the
reporter was granted a talk. 81 am
treating 20 patients at the leper settle
,pent." said DIR. GotC, go being in
the Bishop Home, under Sister Mar
iano, and ! o being outside patients. |
have only facilities enough (baths and
accesserics) fer twcnty.ninc patients,
but | treat all who can provide their
own baths on the outside. Mr.. - .yton
is now building a hospital at KaIawao
desipned for about thirty patients more
Out Of some ZOO patients this looks
like = small number. but the board is
heotipo INV cure as an evperiment and
dnn,t feel Iike ooino G,r,her until if is
d,,er,;ncd 70 ne g certainty All of
fine neonIe Of the settlement beg me
for treatment hnt of course canno,
do more than the hoard allows. and
ANYWAY there are onIv roo annr,xi
notely that feel are in the earlier
.,onos ond tbat 7 could crran
The doctor evidently feels the re-
snonsibiIitv of his nttrr,nces on this
norton of the srhi,ct and was anxi,ps
NOT to violate the cthics Of his nrofrs-
sion nv ASSUMING TOO much The
SThp renresentatiye assured him that
the public was too anxious to know the
condition Of their helnless wards on
MoIokoi for him TO assume q false del.
icacy
"Nvhen | say Certain Of a cure"
continued the doctor. 81 mean that if
ali the conditions Of INV Treatment are
observed Now i, is very difficult ia
act the Haw,iions to adhere to my
necessarily Strict rules prescribe for
leprous person of large build say. a
medicated bath three times a day, be
sides internal remedies Now it's hard
to get Hawaiians to do this. There
are two people shall rescue from
Molokai in the next six months if nc
material change occurs in their present
favorable condition. These are whites,
one a woman, Miss Harper, and one q
man, Mr. Way. Both are private
cases and not attended to at the home
OF the twenty-nine treated at the home
twenty four are go,d cases that will be
NulGU, anu IDul are OlllN uuDlOtS On
periments.
SIN this city | am attending abou
twenty cases of incipient Ieprusy, anc
all are fast getting rid of the disease
Step into my laboratory and | will SHOW
you some lebya bacterial"
The reporter stepped into a well
filed laboratory, noting a large mscro
scope which had perhaps been thu
source Of many an anxious investiga
ton.
"Now, here" said the doctor; pick
ing up slide, sis leprous baciW
He adjusted the focus, and the re
porter saw a lot of carmne spots fu'
of tiny needles.
"rhis is what | study most" SAT-
the doctor, "the segregation and propa
CATION of the microbc germs of infec
ti0us and contagious diseases. LePr
bacteria will not prop gate outside c
the human body so far as know
though many experiments have bee
made, | am now endeayoring to propa
gate it in poi, and if successful, wi
then be GRABBED to inocuate with pre-