The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1897-06-04

for the Doctorate, consequently, he can
! not present the boy 70 you tonight, as "a
| had intended TO do.
| cured; her face, neck, arms and hands
| are in as good condition as those OF Z
person who never had leprosy.
! II ne first patient treated by Or. Car
I rasquilla-a woman named FlOra-hat
! lost her eyebrows and lashes completely
eNOw she shows beautiful hair over tn,
eyebrows and fine. silky eyelashes. The
| skin over her checks, formerly the sea-
OF IeprOmas, mas been replaced by fine
| skin, as soft as that Of young girl II
} this case senslDlllty mas Desn restored
| TWO months ago she had no other signs
/ Of leprOsy than slight cOlOraJiOn over
/ the left eyebrow.
/ Another man. a turner by trade. who
! received only nye injections, and who
/ like the boy L have mentioned, had tC
! hide on account Of the recent law against
! lepeTs, appeared again IN the institute
SIX weeks ago with restored sensibility.
I The enormous ulcers which lie had were
healed, the eyebrows were beginning TO
grow and the lepromas on his face have
! disappeared to the extent Of enabling him
TO walk the streets unmolested. The only
/ leprOmaS left on his forehead, which are
very small now, he hides with hat. This
man, who before could not use his hands,
| is now earning his living in Santa Bar
bara.
Another man, named Quiroga, was
photographed before the treatment. He
was so disfgured that no one would rec
ognize him now.
"A man named Coy with double lep-
rosy, /. G., the lower extremities showed
Elephantiasis Arabum, while trunk and
upper extremitieS showed ElephantiaSis
Grecorum, or true leprosy. This case was
also photographed, and the sensibility
tested before the treatment. He had
almost complete anaSthesia all over the
body. DR.. Elias Rojas, sent by the Re-
public of Costa Rica to study the serum
treatment, began to give injections to
this monstrous patient on the 23d of Sep
TENDER last Zone month and four days
ago.. Gentlemen, eight days had not
passed when we observed with the
greatest establishment that the sensibil>
ity was returning, that the lepromas on
his face and arms began, some to fade,
others TO Suppurate, and still others be-
gan TO disappear; he also began to lose
the excrescences on his legs; the swelling
of his feet has disappeared to such an ex>
tent that he can now wear a shoe on the
The foregoing translation from DR.. Ro,
mans address shows beyond a doubt that
he is faVorabIy impressed with the serum
treatment.
In a letter of January 81, CarrasquiIIa
tells me that there is no doubt as to the
success of the serum. He is a physician
of high professional standing, a teacher
in the College of Medicine and a mem,
Der of the National Academy of Medi-
cine L will translate paragraph from
his most interesting letter. 1t is as fol-
lows:
My Esteemed Friend and Colleague:
II had great pleasure in reading your
letter, because L had news of you and
because you treat of a subject of much
interest to me. L am very glad that you
have inagurated the treatment of lep,
rosy by sero-theraphy in your Republic
/ have no doubt that you will obtain the
same remarkable results that 1 have OBJ
tanned here and that time and experience
Will convince you, as they have convinced
me, that this terrible disease can be cured
by the serum. In fact, the serum-thera-
ply applied to the treatment of leprosy
by the method which / have followed,
which is similar to that of Professor
Ritchet for syphilis. gives magnificent re-
suits. \ year and a half of experiments
On sufficient number of patients, car
rted on by me and my collaborators in
Inherent localities prove all my claims
of Medicine of this city. This
leads me to believe the efficacy of the
treatment which, thus far is the only
sure one, and is truly a specific"
In another letter of April 4th, which I
nave received today, Carrasquilla ex-
presses himself as follows:
According to the correspondence that |
nave been receiving and also accounts |
in medical journals, the serum |
las produced everywhere the same modi- |
1cauonS in leproSy that L have commune
;ated TO the Academy of Medicine
In view of the foregoing facts and con- |
;idering that thus far the results oh, |
aimed here are not as satisfactory as |
hose reported from Colombia, would il |
'e advisable for our Government, follow |
AN Republics, to send a physician to |
to find out. If possible, why the |
erum treatment here is less satisfactory
han similar treatment in Colombia?
Respectfully submitted,
L. F. ALVAREZ NJ. D..
of the Hospital for the
Treatment of Leprosy
Honolulu, June 3, 1897.