Last week Medicine generally learned the name of Dr. Richard Wrenshall, professor of chemistry at the University of Hawaii.* 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 leprosy than standard chaulmoogra derivatives. Governor Lawrence M. Judd of the Territory of Hawaii heard of Dr. Wrenshall's work, asked for a report, published it last week.
One of the standard treatments for leprosy has been to inject ethyl-esters of chaulmoogra oil into a muscle with a...
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