The San Francisco call., 1896-07-04

There are from 80 to 100 pills in tea
spoonful The pills have tendency to
nauseate in many cases. Superintendent
keating, who sampled one, SAID they are
almost tasteless, but he drew the line at
drinking the tea and taking a bath in the
stuff.
There are about three heaping table,
spoonsful Of the tea in each package. 1t
Is put into about pint of water and boiled
down one-third before using.
The package containing the bath prep
aration is about the size of a bunch OF fire.
crackers. The bark is put into a linen
bag and soaked in the water. DR.. Goto's
instructions are that pure running water
is best for the bath and we'll water next
best. The Pesthouse has neither.
The whites and the Chinese will bathe
in separate tubs, and they will use one
water. Owing TO the limited accommoda-
tions at the Pesthouse probably only one
bath day will be taken.
The Bindt boys, as mentioned in THE
CALL several days ago, have taken the
treatment before. 1t did them a great
deal Of good. They were broken out, and
their faces and hands were as badly
swollen and as scaly as the worst case in
the Pesthouse. Now their complexions
are clear, though pale, and their flesh is
smooth. They will keep up the treatment.
Pedro Penida, the Mexican, has been tax
ing the pills alone about two months. He
said yesterday that they had done him
some good. When the pills nauseate the
instructions OF DR.. Goto are to stop using
them for day or two, and to never take
them on an empty stomach. Further in
structions from Dr. Goto are to the effect
that for every five days of bathing there
must be one day of rest, and that if con-
ge5tion or fatigue follow, the number of
baths must be decreased. The member of
the Board of Health of Honolulu who was
hQr a pal l-u . 4Hot 81
though the most inconvenient to take
seemed to do the lepers more good than
any other part OF the treatment The
water must cover the shoulders of the
bather.
1t was intended to celebrate the elorious
Fourth at the Pesthouse by beginning the
treatment this morning, but the leper
appetite may interfere with this pro-
gramme. The leper appetite is quite Wig
orous. The fourteen uhfortunates heard
yesterday afternoon that Superintendent
heatlng is going to give them a special
spread to-day in honor of the Declaration
OF Independence. Among oGher good
things TO eat each leper, as he passes be-
fore the cooks window bearing a platter
for the regular "hand-out," will be gwen
piece OF succulent roast pig and some
pastry.
Now, the lepers know that the pills have
tendency to make them sick at the stom-
acn, SO some nave declared themselves to
the effect that they prefer to postpone the
beginning OF the treatment one day to run
ming the risk of losing roast pig and pas
try after 1t is comfortably located under
their wristbands, and this may be done.
superintendent Keating was Inclined to
postpone the treatment till all could be-
gin it together.
DR.. O'Brien said last evening that if the
roast pig and pastry appetite of the pa
tients did not shrink in size the treatment
might not begin to-day. "They are going
to have a little beer, too, believe" he
said.
II have divided the patients into four
classes" he continued, from those who
have Ieprosy in it's incipient stages up to
those who have it in its worst form
There is only one case of Asiatic leprosy
out there-the scaly kind. He is that tall,
fine-looking Chinaman. Each of the four
classes will bathe in the same water. l do
not want to put those who have the dis
ease in its early stage into the same water
with the liberated patients. l DO not
think l shall go out there again until
Monday morning"
when ought the effect of the treatment
to become visible ?" he was asked.
''It ought to be visible in the skin of the
patients in two or three days." the doctor
reDlied.