CURE OF LEPROSY
AUCKLAND, Jan. 7. The curing of lepers was the subject of some remarks by Dr. V. G. Heiser, of the United States Health Department, who arrived in Auckland from used hypodermically, and this cured a great number of patients.’’. Dr. Heiser said He had made a study of this disease in India in company with Sir Lton Rogers, and they had succeeded in isolating the substance irt the oil which cured even a larger proportion of lepers than had been anticipated. “It is one of the most exalting effects of modern medicine,” said Dr. Heiser, “that the leper has something hopeful to look forward-I°. It is possibly not too much to say that all those who suffer from leprosy can have the disease arrested. When we recall the fact that this disease has been baffling mankind since biblipal times, it is very encouraging that modern science has at last found a way which holds out bo much hope.” Vancouver' by the Madura yesterday. Dr. Heiser for a considerable period was officer in charge of the Department of Public, Health in the Philippines, and has devoted a greaLdeal of time to the eudy cff leprosy. He is now convinced that a cure for this disease has been discovered in the form of one of the esters which have been isoltated from Chaulmoogra oil. Dr. Heiser stated that he had just examined 137 lepers at Hawaii, and had found the whole of them improving very rapidly. Ha said it was not too much to hope that from 25 per cent, to 30 per ■ cent, of these would be permanently cured by this treatment, “Chaulmoogra oil,” said Dr. Heiser, “has been known for hundred® of years, but the drawback heretofore was that it vitiated those who took it, and the problem was to find the essential properties of the oil that would do, good in leprosy cases. Those connected with chemistry all over the world have been experimenting with a view to solving thfo problem. Latterly < 'American, chemists have taken the matter up at Honolulu, and as I have Indicated with most wohderful repulte. The oil was
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LIV, 11 January 1921, Page 5
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