The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-10-06
 CHAULMOOCRA OIL WORKS WONDERS AGAINST LEPR0SY Hawaiian Woman Appar- ently Cured by Treatment
 In 7 Years. U. s. Public Health
 Men Doing Good Work Inmates of Leper q. Colony Enjoy All the Pleasures Ss.s. of Life.

Honolulu, Oct.--<6 - Twenty-Five years a leper, but now discharged by thes physician of the United States Pub1ic Health Service in charge of the ~Kalihi Ieprosy Investigation sta- ton here without an apparent trace of the disease in her body. is the re- Honolulu, given to the Associated Press in what is believed to be the first interview of it's kind pub lished. szs .ss sr
 Refined chaulmoogrs.oi prepared by pr. A. l.. Dean and his Econfreres of the University of Hawaii and ad- ministered by Dr. J. Y Mcdonald, di- rector of the investigation station, Territorial Board of Health and their associates is credited by the Public Health officials with having arrested the,+ disease in three years, five months and seven days of treatment.
 Today sMrss Blaisdell is living at her home here, going in and out among her friends and taking up the threads of a busy life which were cut when the ma1ady forced her without the camp"
 Her manner is cheerful, almost vi- vacious; her mental energy unusually keen; her movements quick and de- feet health; and the skin of her hand as the Associated Press representa- tive took it at parting, is soft and smooth as a babys.
 OnlY one apparent ellcCl OI Lht disease remains in the occasional twitching. of one eye. There the lepro- sy bachli destroyed nerve before the treatment took effect
 Mrs. Blaisdell is a full-blooded Ha- waiian, last of long line of priest esses of the flame" in the old Hawaiian temple worship. Before she entered the Kalihi institution for treatment she organized the Daughters and Sons of Hawaiian Warriors, one oi the strongest of the Hawaiian soci- cites in the islands. She speaks Eng fish fluently, also Hawaiian and -hel information on world affairs is fal above the average.
 My grandmother told me to ob. serve our old 'tahus'H (rules of con ducD or | would be stricken with le prosy," said this daughter of az race that believed in Divine Trinity 3,00( years ago and taught the power o. mind over matter centuries before the Christian era. >'I did not heet ] her warning and in 1895 a red, burn ing spot on my right cheek announc ed that my punishment had come. l treappeared off and on but not in az gravated. form until 1908.
 From then on I became worse 'Eruptfons,' as we call them, appear ed every three months. My face ant other parts of my body and limb became swollen and inflamed durin: these periods. - 1E
 l~ "In March, 19rf.. was sent t the Kalihi hospital. From that tim until was released the other day, took different kinds of treatment each marking a step of progress il the manner of refining and admins tering the curative essence of chaul moogra oil.
 -.During the early stages of tn work at Kalihi chaulmoogra oil wa hard to take" Mrs. Blaisdell contin ued, describing the remedy. At pre- sent an injection is administered ono a week. while the<remedy is take internally three times a week.
 .'Sometimes, in about 10 per cen of the cases, the oil brought on a le prosy fever, accompanied by erup tions, and the doctors instructed u not to take the capsules until the.