The Bridgeport times and evening farmer. (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1918-1924, 1920-08-28
BELIEVE REAL.
.LEPROSY CURE
is DISCOVERED

cure Tor lGprOSy has been discovered
by President Arthur L. Dean of the
University of Hawaii in cooperation
| with DR.. ]. T. Mcdonald Of the 1eper
receiving station here is the firm be-
| lief of the Territorial Board Of Health
! physicians and local scientists.
| A striking evidence of faith in the
remedy was the paroling this week of
thirty receiving station patients who
had been treated with it few
mitted to go home. They will report
at stated intervals for six months and
/ be examined
| During the last twelve months fifty
eight patients have been paro1ed, each
apparently free from the plague. AT
the board of health meeting, at which
che thirty paroles We're granted it
announced that it is not expected that
any inmates of the receiving station
will be sent to the -leper settlement at
Kalaupapa, Molokai, this year, SO
confident are the members in the eff
cheney of the discovery.
| TWenty-eight were paroled from
not been found necessary to recommlt
any of them. There are now eighty
five patients in the hospital
| President Frederick E. Trotter of
the Territorial Board of Health, and
for many years chief quarantine Off
GER and surgeon in chage of the Uni
ted States Public Health Service at
this port, tells The World correspond
ent that in his opinion the Dean spe-
cific undoubtedly is a, positive cure
for leprosy when administered in the
earliest stages of the disease
Big Appropriation Wanted.
! The Hawaiian Legislature will be
asked to make liberal appropriation
to aid the production of the Dean
lero fio ~, r; f1,of
may be tried at the leper settlement
on Molokai Island in advanced stages.
There is no secret about the Dean
specific. 1t is a separating of the es-
sential elements from the body of
Chaulmoogra oil, which for years has
been used in treating lerrosy. This
oil is the product of a tree in British
India. Under the old method the
whole oil was administered through
| intermuscular injections ?. 1t was
known that only certain elements of
the oil produced results, and DIR.
Dean, through chemical processes,
has isolated those elements from the
remaining non-active fluid. Hereto
fore the injection of large quantity
of the oil at stated intervals was nee
essary and the process was painful.
Now only that part of the oil which
actually does the work is injected.
Prof. J. F. Rock, a local scientist,
during a recent visit in India obtained
seeds of the Chaulmoogra tree and an
effort is being made to grow the spe-
cies in these islands.
4 The Surgeon-Ge of the United
States has written to DR.. Mcdonald
requesting that money be raised to
produce the Dean specific in large
quantities so that it may be used in
the treatment of lepers now isolated
on the mainland of the United States
The board of health, however, intend
to confine the specific to Hawaii unit
it has been given exha ustive tests
Under no circumstances will it be dis
pensed Unfortunately, as i is q
treatment which can be administered
only in a hospital and under the di-
rection of a, competent physician Oh
surgeon.
The World was the first mainland
newspaper to publish the initial de-
tailed account of Dr. Deans discov.
cry. Since that time letters have
been received by the board of health
and DR.. Dean from practically ever!
part of the world requesting infor
nation concerning the specific.
Leper Colony Happy
The residents of the kalaupap p;
settlement are happy and contented
reports to the contrary notwithstand
ing Men and women patients mar
! ry They have children who ar
without a trace of the malady, and
fine home for them is maintained il
; Honolulu. They have their churche
and societies, and swear by Jack D
McVeigh, their superintendent. The.
: have little plots of land and grow taro
from which poi is made, vegetable
; and fruit. They recently erected a ma
5 tive stone memorial to Mother Mari
anne, and are planning a similar on
for the late President Roosevelt. Oh
holidays they have horse and foo
races, moving pictures, concerts AM
plays, and each patient receives
pension from the government.
They have heard all about DR.
Deans new specific, and hope is flam
ing high in their hearts. The patient
paroled from the receiving station las
December have become voluntee
| boosters for the Chaulmoogra OF
trea tment, spreading throughout tn
| islands the news that this treatmen
is efficacious and of the creates
benefit. AS result the board o
health has been informed that a mum
Der of persons supposedly afflicted
with the malady have given them
| | selves up to the authorities and hav
| 70 hn mn