Important Announcement of a New Treatment London, Oct. 2%
Important discussions on the results. of leprosy research occurred at the Conference of the Medical \Committee of the British Empire Relief Association with Dominion and Colonial Medical Officers today, Sir Leonard Rogers suggest ed a scheme to distribute to all tropical colonies in 1926 seed of the hydnocarpus wightiana and the hhydnocarpus anthlelminti The discovery was made by Dr. Muir that the pure white seed of the former, which grows very abundantly "in Southern India, yields such pure oil that it is in: Jectible, without conversion to ethyl esters—almost painlessly, and with, results at least as good' as esters and at one tenth the cost. The tree furnishing this oil will fruit in tropical lands in five or six years, and for eight months of the
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