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  • n  East Indian tree with oily seeds yield chaulmoogra oil used to treat leprosy

  • Just as useful as chaulmoogra oil, upon which hopes have risen high, is "any kind of counterirritant.
  • Only about 40 lepers now remain at the colony, many having been discharged in recent years after chaulmoogra oil treatment.
  • In a flat-topped, white building overlooking his university's experimental farms he has compounded a preparation of chaulmoogra oil which promises to be a better treatment for .

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