Abstract
CHATTLMOOGRA oil is an old drug in the treatment of leprosy, but it is only in comparatively recent years that a really useful remedy has been evolved from it. Long trials and experiments by Manson, Roux, Heiser, Rogers, and others have culminated in ‘alepol,’ a preparation of sodium hydnocarpate suitable for injection, and from the account given by Sir Leonard Rogers at the annual meeting of the British Empire Leprosy Relief Association on Feb. 24, it seems that it is possible with this to achieve a cure or something very near a cure in a sensible proportion of cases, especially if treatment is commenced at an early stage. Renewed interest in leprosy and its intensive investigation has also shown that the disease is more prevalent in Great Britain and elsewhere than had been supposed, and the Association has a considerable task before it. Besides surveying the problem, it has distributed the remedy on a large scale, and has provided seeds of the plant (Taraxtogenos hurzii) from which the oil and ultimately the separated gynocardic acid is prepared, so that the drug may be grown locally in the various foci where it is needed. No one should imagine that a certain cure for all cases of leprosy has been discovered, but there is no doubt that the new remedy represents a very important advance in that direction.
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