CURE FOR LEPROSY
“A TRIUMPH FOR. BRITISH CHEMICAL RESEARCH.” A permanent cure for the scourge of leprosy is anticipated from the results of the latest London trials with chemical injections, which are most encouraging. Several cases under treatment arc showing marked improvement, a chemical research expert stated recently. Discussing U.a ueainiLnc with a Press representative, tire expert explained that the basic agent used in the amelioration of leprous conditions is chaulmcogra oil, obtained from a tree which grows in Assam, Burma, and Siam. At first this oil was taken inwardly, in a crude slate, as a cure, but it is thought that better results can be obtained from tho injection of the oil’s derivatives, its ethyl esters. This acid, or Moogrol injection, he said, is now being very widely used. The drug is destroying the living leprous bacteria in the body. “It is a triumph for British chemical research,” the expert concluded.
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Evening Star, Issue 18052, 21 August 1922, Page 6
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152CURE FOR LEPROSY Evening Star, Issue 18052, 21 August 1922, Page 6
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