The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-01-05
HOFFMAN,
ON The OIL
ChaImoogra Treatment
For Leprosy.
PSYCHOLOGISTS REPORT
Experiments at Kalihi Receiving
Station are Explained to
Health Board.

The following is Bacteriologist Hof-
mann's report to the Board of Health on
the treatment of leprosy by subcuta-
neous injections of Chalmoogra OIL
To the President and Members of the
Board of Health.
Gentlemen: In the following lines
please find my report on treatment OF
lleprosy by simultaneous injections Of
IChalmoogra oil:
DR. Donitz related in an article pub
ilished in the "Berliner Klinische Wo-
lohenschrift" on the Sd of September,
1900 that he treated several persons af
lfijcted with leprosy, internally with
IChalmoogra oil, but was forced to fore
go this treatment on account of the i'll eff
fleets which the oil had on the stomach
| For this reason it occurred to DR.. Do
nit= to inject the oil hypodermically,
which he did, and in two months the re-
suits were encouraging enough to recon-
mend a further trial of this Treatment
| DIR. Donitz lays no claim, however, to
the above method of treatment. as Tur-
TOLLS Bey had before obtained good re-
suits from this manner of administering
/ the drug. DR.. DonitZ states in his paper
that an injection, even of a few drops OF
| the OIL is followed by a local and gen.
ieral reaction, i. e., a slight reddening of
i the skin and soreness on the place of in
lection and a slight rise in the tempera-
lture; with signs of irritation of the dis
leased parts, especially noticeable in
cases where the eyes were afflicted.
where always a pericyclitis followed the
| Injection and afterwards a cleaning up of
1.-THE leprous infiltration.
| He repeated the iniection-0 20, C.
lie. m.-when the reaction disappeared.
! The results obtained in two months
were, that the infiltrations of the skin
We're decidedly disappearing.
These above facts inspired in me a de-
sire to begin a trial of this treatment at
Kalihi Receiving Station, which 1 did,
commencing October 4th, 1900. on eight
persons afflicted with various forms OF
Ileprosy and added to this number, one,
on October Sth; one October 22d, and
three on November 26th.
The temperature has heen taken twice
daily. No other method of treatment has
been given to any one. and the results sc
far obtained are as follows:
/ One-No bad effects have been expert
fenced by any one of the patients. with
the exception of a very few small alb
tscesses on the place of injection.
Two-The injections caused a local re-
faction more or less and were painless
with the exception of one case, which al
lwayS had Immediately graduating pains
(which however, disappeared in two OF
three DAYS. Following the injection g
lslieht rise of temperature to about 10,
twas noticeable in most of the cases, in
side of from twenty-four to thirty-s1
ihours, no matter how large the dose was
Is. e., large doses up to c.c.c.-it die
mot seem to cause the temperature to gt
to a higher degree
In some cases no rising of the tempera
ture was at all noticeable. In others no
regularly.
Nc case has, during this treatment de
veloped any new outbreaks of the dis
iease, a fact which would be of great i'm
lportance If it should be found true il
prolonged treatment.
In tubercular cases, especially tn
Iworst-looking cases, was a decided i'm
Iprovement noticeable
The tubercles are smaller, the skin i
lated it's elasticity.
In all nerve cases the treatment wa
less noticeable. except that every perso
claimed to have felt ''life"-as they them
selves termed tin the benumbed parts
The least effect was found on the erup
J tons of the skin without tubercles, onl
that as stated above an outbreak of ney
eruptions has not been observed
The time elapsed since the beginning
OF this treatment at Kalihi Receiving
Station is too short to allow anythin
else, than to express a hope to proven
by this treatment, further spreading o
the disease and a regaining of the norma
I, shape of the parts which have been dis
figured by the tubercles.
The following was Bacteriologist Hon
mann's report on the merits of Jarab
ipara Ia elefancis, and tua-tua:
On the 18th of December, 1900. receiy
ed two bottles of Jarabe para la Elefar
els and two bottles of tua-tua extrac
from DR.. Carmichael with the under
standing to give those preparations
trial in the Kalihi Receiving Station
! Two patients since then have take
daily three tablespoons of the first PREF
laration: so far without any result; eve
the purgatfve and emetic effect whic
us medicine is claimed to have, coul
not be observed.