A Report on the Gynocardate and Morrhuate Treatment of Leprosy Based on Forty Cases Treated in the Kashmir State Leper Hospital
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internally daily for six years with great benefit. He also recorded 18 cases in which under this treatment, he noted improvement of sensation and diminution of tubercles. For in 1890, reported a case in which, between 1884 and 1890, a leper treated with this oil had completely recovered. Rennie and Carter also observed marked improvement after internal administration of chaulmoogra oil (1). In India, systematic treatment was carried on in Madras with oil pressed from the seeds of gvnocardia odorata (Hydnocarpus odoratus) 2 gms. of which were given twice daily in an ounce of milk, and it was claimed that anaesthesia cleared up and the skin became smoother (2). In 1913 four cases were reported in the United States of America as having been apparently cured by chaulmoogra oil treatment. In two of these, the remedy had been used hypodermically. Victor Heiser, Director of Health for Philippine Islands, then tried
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دوره 55 شماره
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تاریخ انتشار 2016