Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-09-30
HEAL THSERv|CE
AIDS ALIENATION
0FLEPROSY CASES
Forty-Eight Sufferers 0
Dreaded MaIady Lose
Symptom.
BY the Associated Press.

LeproSy, a Scourge OF humanity
since early history, apparently has
been conquered by officers of the
United States public health. service
in the leper colony at Kalihi, Hawaii.
Forty-eight sufferers of the dreaded
malady. who have been subjected to
Z new method Of treatment, have re-
covered to such extent as to warrant
their release on parole, and, after
year, not one has shown symptom
of recurrence. .
As vet no announcement of cure"
has been made officially, for some OF
the government medical experts are
frankly skeptical of the results. 1T
may be years before an official ana
\final opinion is given.
\ The limit of the official claim is set
North in joint report to the pubic
Wealth service made by Dr. j. I. NC
\onald, director of. the leprosy IN
\stigation station and superintend-
Z physician to Kalihi Hospital, and
NPresident A. L. Dean of the UNI
Witty of Hawaii, as follows:
Helps Leprosy Cases.
Mas been sufficiently established
khaulmoogra oil contains one or
kagents which exert a marked
eutic action in many cases OF
/. We cannot say as yet that
sease is cured. since we have
est adequate to establish such
bet. Whether or not the apparent
5 are real and permanent. it is
Jent that we have a valuable
It at our disposal in the control
be disease"
kulmoogra oil in it's crude state
new: drug for the treatment of
-. 9sy. but in its raw form it proved
vn.r f,vI} % g
hat 1t had to be temporarily discon-
lnued. Science turned toward its de-
Natives and Drs. Mcdonald and Dean
tport cit was found that the ethyl
the fatty acids were thin fluid oils.
hiding themselves readily to intra-
hscular injections and were readily
Eorbed."
Injection Of. the oil derivative by a
hinge has brought a new hope to
sue leper, for at Kalihi Hospital lin
lection day" is described by the doc
tors report as an occasion for merry
making, though of painful experience
for the sufferers.
port says, now consists in weekly in
fections of a preparation which con-
sists of the mixed ethyl esters of the
Acids of zehaulmoogra oil with 2 per
cent of iodine in chemical combina
zion. The amount used starts at one
CUBIC CcutiiHeIcE anu 10 STduudIly III
creased to a maximum of four or five
cubic centimenters for adults"
Accessory Treatments.
!. Accessory treatments of iodine lini-
raent, .oiptments and sun baths are
general health and mental attitude of
the patients.
Drs. Mcdonald and Dean are of the
opinion that leprosy of the nervetype
as well as the nodular cases should
receive the new treatment. They re-
port astonishing results with the
nerve cases.
I'VE believe our remedies arrest the
disease" they say regarding the
nerve cases, land prevent further de-
strucfion of hands and fingers, even
when, as in long-standing cases, nor
NAL function cannot be fully restored.
During the past year we have done
better than simply arrest the destruc-
tive process; we have had the great
satisfaction of seeing marked i'm
provement in considerable number
of these purely neural cases, and ap-
parent1y a complete recovery in 9TH
efs. One young man who came in
with decidedly ataxic gait. unable
to raise his body on his toes and with
one hand SO weak and deformed that
he had been compelled to abandon the
use of the typewriter a year before
entering. so far improved before his
parole that his disability in walking had
not only disappeared: but he became one
of the leading tennis players, and one
Of the swiftest runners in the COM
pound.
"A woman with all fingers absorbed
to less than half their original
length, after a years treatment be-
came able. to write, to sew and knit
and to- execute many movements and
functions of which she had for years
been deprived"
Lesions Often Disappear.
Regarding the virulent form of
vanrOQv the dncfnrS ronarf