The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1902-01-30
TUA-TUA
LEPER
REMEDY
HaWaiians Will Not
Submit to
It.
DR.. CAMP SCORES
ANOTHER CURE
What He Says About the South
American Shrub SIogsett
Has Doubts.

~ f1E tud tud SHruD dS d cure loA
Ieprosy in Hawaii has one draw
= back, but that is a most material
one. DR.. Camp, who has been expert
menting with the plant for some time
and who sent the prepared liquid to
Tahiti, is convinced that the medicine
is of much merit, though he declared
yesterday that from his past experience
with the natives 1t would not be much
of a success in Hawaii.
ct experimented with the tua-tua
plant for some time and made an un-
favorable report to Surgeon Carmich-
ael, but that was because had but
few weeks for my experiments when
the Iepers were removed from Kalihi,
said DR.. Camp yesterday as he led the
way through his office to plot OF
= ground in the rear and pointed out
growing tua tua plant. There Is lots
of that stuff growing at the expert
ment station" he continued, "and am
preparing a large amount of 1t for Miss
Henry, who intends to send 1t to her
sister in Tahiti. The trouble with the
use of this cure in Hawaii. is, that the
average leper will not take the treat
ment continuously, and after one ap-
pIication OF the medicine will refuse to
accept it. For that reason it is impos-
sible to tell whether the treatment
would be successful or not. should
think 1t would be the Board of Health
that should continue the experiments,
though 1 am perfectly willing to do so.
IL 1 can but get the patients who Will
continue the treatment long enough
The effect of the tua tua cure is so vio-
lent, having the symptoms OF cholera
morbus, that the Hawaiian viii not
take IL. I have tried it on natives, but
one dose is enough for them. They will
have nothing to do with anything that
gives them pain, and the tua tua is
particularly violent in its action once
the leper is at the Kalihi receiving sta
tion he is free to accept or refuse treat
ment, and nothing can be done. From
reports received from Tahiti 1 believe
the medicine to be valuable. In three
or four months we will have reports
from. other cases there. and by ti-at |
time will be able to tell more about
it. The boy who was successfully treat
ed was English, and he was little
hero. taking the treatment without
fIfnching. 1t is something that cannot
be done with the Hawaiian, for after /
the first dose, and it's accompanying eI-
fects, he gives up in disgust treated
one case here, Portuguese who hao
leprosy, and the tua tua was very ef-
fectiye. He now appears all right ana
shows no symptoms of the disease.
When the Ieprosy reaches. a certain
stage the cases must be reported. and
the Ieper is sent to the receiving sta
ton. so that the further treatment Is
impossible I would favor continuing
the experiments in other countries
where the Iepers are not segregated
and can be easily treated. am making
arrangements now for preparing
large quantity, and may send some Oh
the cure to Japan for experiments
there. AS I said before, am willing
to make the experiments, if I can get
the patients, and they will take the
treatment"
DIR. SLOGGETTS VIEWS.
President Sloggett of the Board OF
Health was interviewed also regarding
the tua tua cure, but stated that he
had no wish to, or authority to speak
for the board, but only as one mem
Der He stated, however, that he I,
would again present the matter at the
next meeting, though personally he had