The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1921-11-29
new Treatment
FREES LEPERS
Chattanooga Oil Proves Success
as a Remedy.
CURES IN JAPAN ARE CITED
Patients Appear to Be Normal After
Two Months Use Of the Discovery
Japanese Doctor Estimates That
There Are 10000 Persons in Japan
AFFLICTED With Leprosy-st Made
on Chaulmoogra Plantation in Ha-
wall to Insure Supply of Oil.

The chaulmoogra oil treatment fol
leprosy, evolved by DR.. A. l.. Dean
president Of the University of Hawaii
mas produced remarkable results" in
checking the disease in Japan, accord
ing to DR.. r. Hoyoshima, director of
the medical college of the Imperial
University of Kioto, Japan, in an ad-
dress at Honolulu to leading members
OF the Japanese community.
Doctor Hoyoshima, who is studying
the latest developments in the specific
SAID that when report of Doctor Deans
discovery reached Japan, chaulmoOgra
OIL was prepared at the medical de-
partment of the Kioto university i'm
medlately and experiments were
made on thirteen lepers Two months
OF treatment was so effectual, Doctor
Hoyosh1ma said, that 1t was impossible
Tor layman to recognize that the
patients ever had been afflicted with
leprosy. He added:
Our experiences resulted so favor
aDly that the medical department of
k1oto university has received innumer-
aDie requests from leprosy patients to
nave the treatment administered to
tnem, but our department has been I'M
able to meet the demand. A large
number Of leprosy patients ask eager
~ for the treatment, and this very
DAY a great many of them are waiting
for my return"
100000 Lepers in Japan.
Doctor Hoyoshima estimated that
there are 100000 persons in Japan
afflicted with leprosy. The fact that
,haulmoogra oil is curative for
eprosy was known in Japan before
Doctor Deans discovery. Doctor Hoy
'shima said, but the effect Of taking
ne OIL prior to Doctor Deans expert
nents was so terrible that many per-
ons preferred to suffer with leprosy
ather than submit to the treatment.
A start has been made here on the
haulmoogra plantation which Is in
ended to increase the chaulmoogra oil
reduction in order that an adequate j
uppiy might be furnished to the ter
TORY and used in the treatment Of
'prosy. Two thousand chaulmoogra
'ees have been turned over to the ter Z
torial board Of agriculture and .
'reStry by the experimental station
the Hawaiian Sugar Planters asso-
alton and the territory has raised
OOO more. These will be planted at /
aiahole, Hawaii, by Charles S. Il
i'd, superintendent of forestry, and /
III be the nucleus Of the plantation. Il
The progress Of the application of
e Dean method at the Kalihi leprosy i
alton, showing that in the four i
en- and half months ended on March Il
last, 81 out of the 1873 patients X
q been paroled on recommendation K
the attending doctors that the dis Il
Sc had been arrested to such an ex- If
ut that it no longer is considered X
ngerous in their cases, is related in *
pamphlet written recently by IE
'ctor Dean and DR.. J. T. Mcdonald IE
the United States public health |E
vice. |E
Development Of the Cure. Is
The pamphlet, published by the Is
lerican Medical association, said liz
It there had been a well defined IL
7elopment not only in method but lE
o In the synthetic production of is
fatty acids of chaulmoogra Oil. liz
AS has been pointed out, there is no liz
Of demonstrating that any person IL
been cured absolutely Of 1eprosy, is
the ninety-fOur patients who have IE
n parOled are believed to be free liz
n the disease" the pamphlet said. lE
to-the present time not one of IE
patients paroled since October /, III
B. has shown recurrence of the ~ 70
.ase. III
It Is probably to be expected that H.
lsional cases will show recurrence |E
have to return for a second course k
reatment. 1t is believed, however, lA
the percentage of such returns is tE
g to be low. 1t would appear Isl
we have methods in hand for Heb