The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1902-01-27
Juice of Shrub at
Experiment
Station.
EXTRACT PREPARED
BY DR.. c. E. CAMP
Treatment of a Diseased Boy in
Tahiti Was a Complete
Success.
T-RoM far off Tahiti news has come

E%ROM far off Tahiti news has come
4 that a native leprous boy is be-
| ing cured of his disease with the
juices of the. anti-ieprous shrub, the
tua-tua, the extract having been taken
from plants brought from South Amer
lea to Honolulu. and propagated In the
experiment station at Makiki. The SIM
pie announcement that cure has been
effected. is backed UP by the heartfelt
protestatiens Of gratitude from the
father and mother Of the boy to those
who were instrumental in making him
whole again. 1t is due to DR.. c. z. Camp,
of this city, formerly on the staff of
the Honolulu Board of Health, and
Miss Teuira Henry, a teacher In the
public schools, who was once a resident
of Papeete, Tahiti, that the treatment
was begun on the boy less than year
ago.
More than two years ago DR.. w. II.
Maxwell, the former director of the
Hawaiian Planters Experimental Sta
ton. received from Frederick Coville,
the botanist of the Department of Ag-
riculture at Washington, twenty-five
They We're planted in the experimental
station grounds, and thrived in this
climate. The Department of Agricul-
ture originally received the plants from
Venezuela, whence they came with the
assurace that the juices from the odd
plant had been used to treat leprosy
there with success. The medical staff
of the local Board of Health made an
extract from the plants. Lepers were
treated at the Kalihi receiving station,
and much progress was noted by DR..
Camp, who supervised the experiments.
Just when he seemed to arrive at a
critical stage in the proceeding. there
was an interruption by the removal Of
the patients to Molokai, where they
were out of his reach.
Miss Henry told to Advertiser re-
porter yesterday evening the story Of
the success Of the treatment Of the Ia
nitian boy She also told of the clam
orous requests which the natives OF
that country had made for the extract
that they, too might be cleansed of the
taint. She was enthusiastic over the
latest news she had received from Ia
hiti. but desired above all else that DR..
Camp should be given full credit for
what had been accomplished.
My attention was first called to the
tua-tua plant said Miss Henry, @'by
reading of it in the Advertiser 1t struck
me then that the priest who had taken
the trouble to give such explicit details
Of a cure effected and known TO him,
and send the same on to the authori-
ties at Washington, was sincere. I be-
Iieved that there was a possibility Of
tua-tua curing persons affected with
the dread disease, and I went to Mr..
Haughs at the Government Nursery TO
ask for some of the branches and seeds.
l was told to go to the experimental
station of the Hawaiian Planters As
sociation. There I was informed that
DR.. Camp could prepare the extract
necessary for the experiments. / saw
aim, and he kindly consented to make
/ quantity of it for me to send to fa-
0eete. 1 got some branches. seeds ana
roots. and Dr. Camp told me how 10
.reat them. Under his direction
the leaves and seeds anu
uounp branches until they became
,uI, Tho extract was sort Of gum
nv oil. This 1 gave TO Dr. camp VINO
,oiIad #. and the liquid thus derived
,.as nlaced In alcohol, sealed up in
iebt hottie and then STEPPED. 1t is a
hin 1iou;d. and evaporates quickly
,,ba, exDosed to the air. 1t Is OF a
-arv beautiful green hue, and gives or
,,,rifving odor that makes one almost
eel that it will cleanse whatever II
ouches-
my sister. Mrs. Walker. who resides
, Papeete, had written me Of a young