The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-11-18
iCHAULMOOCRA
 OIL SPECIFIC
 FOR lEPR0SY
Patients in Hawaii Have Been Discharged as Cured Since Discovery of New Preparation by Dr. Ar thur l.. Dean.

Hono1ulu,T. H. Nov. 1S-On the outskirts of Honolulu, set we'll apart from all residential districts, is a little oasis of green lawns and spreading shade trees beneath which stands a group of plain but scrupulously clean
 and rather attractive buildings. No signbard identifies the place. It might
 be a school or even a group of private
 buildings fenced off from the public only by an ordinary wire fence. This unpretentiouS, name1eSS, out of-the-way establishm is the Kalihi receiving stations, where victims or suspected victims of the worlds most ancient scourge, leprosy, are sent health authorities.
 Two years ago this pretty little spot
 was place of tragedy At its gate parents from children and friends from friends, never to be reunited this side of the grave. For from Ka1ihi it of Mo1okai, from which in those days none returned, and but few ever re-
 turned to their loved ones from Kalihi. New Treatment Discovered.
 University. o9 Hawaii in Honolulu came word 08 . new specific for lepro- sy derived from the chaumoorga oil,
 which for years had been the only
 known weapon against the dread dis ease, but which in it's form as then
 applied was unbearable to the patient in effective quantities. Scientists
 scoffed and awaited word of another
 failure in the long record of attempts to find cure for leprOsy. HeedlesS of these skeptics Dr. Arthur l.. Dean, of the University of Hawaii, discoverer of the new chaulmoogra oil deriva-
 tives, as he called his specific, and Dr. J. T. Mcdonald, physician in charge of the Kalihi receiving station, went to work to test the discovery.
 Difficulty was encountered at first in finding volunteers who would per
 init the authorities to experiment with the new treatment on themselves, such was the evil reputation of the old oil treatment. Some were found, how ever, who were willing to sacrifice themselves for the possible good of
 their fellows and the work began. From the first the symptoms of ex- treme nausea which had been pro- duced in the patient by the old treat
 ment were noticeably absent with the new derivatives, which were applied by injector into the flesh. This en- couraged more patients to volunteer,
 insuring to the experimenters more definite results.
 Several Patients Discharged. Then to an astonished world came the word that several patients at Kali hi, known victims of the disease, were to be discharged, cured of the disease as far as medical skill could ascertain.
 The world still doubted. The idea of the incurability of leprosy was too firmly implanted to be thus easily
 rooted out. More patients were dis l charged from time to time, but not until early in 1921 were the skeptics | finally put to rout. At that time some sixty-seven patients were discharged from the Kalihi station with a clean | bill of health, all through treatment with the new derivatives of the chau- moogra oil.
 On the day of this great event Kalihi | ceased to be a place of tragedy and be- came instead a place of good cheer and hopefulneSs. Suspects consigned to the station went not as men leav- ing the world, but as men going to be
 to any hospital. On Sunday after
 moons particularly is the place bright
 and cheerful, for on that afternoon
 the members of various churches go to
 the station to meet with the patients
 in inspiring outdoor service. At these services well-known musicians perform, and are entertained in re-
 turn by the choruses, glee clubs and orchestras of the station, of which a
 number have been organized by the patients. There is a minimum of preaching, a maximum of cheerful | music, and the entire atmosphere is No Tears Now.
 No visitor having seen the former | tragedy and tears of Kalihi could visit there on Sunday afternoon now with | low wire fence and a few feet of
 ground, two groups face one another -one of townspeople, one of patients
 at the station. The latter, for the
 most part Hawaiians, range in age | from tots of three and four to middle | aged men and women. On the faces of all, young and old, is the cheery | stamp of wel1-grounded hope, and no | one hearing their splendid singing and watching their joy in it could doubt l that to them life is no longer a hope less tragedy, but a thing of bright | ness to which they look forward with full confidence and courage.