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chaulmoogra

NOUN
  1. East Indian tree with oily seeds yield chaulmoogra oil used to treat leprosy

How To Use chaulmoogra In A Sentence

  • Instead of giving raw chaulmoogra oil in doses, as had been the custom for centuries, he gave it by injection to the muscles. The Journal of Negro History, Volume 7, 1922
  • Chaulmoogra oil and gurjun oil internally and externally are in some instances of service. Essentials of Diseases of the Skin Including the Syphilodermata Arranged in the Form of Questions and Answers Prepared Especially for Students of Medicine
  • Tropical chaulmoogra oil comes from the expressed oil of seeds of the chaulmoogra tree.
  • The chaulmoogra tree also featured on a Fiji stamp of 1970 in honour of the closing of the hospital
  • One of the standard treatments for leprosy has been to inject ethyl-esters of chaulmoogra oil into a muscle with a large bore syringe.
  • People went from worshipping snakes or the sun god, or trying to get bitten by a cobra, to giving chaulmoogra oil by rubbing, orally, or by injection, and then from using sulphones to multidrug therapy.
  • Chaulmoogra was later identified as a source of chaulmoogra oil, an age-old leprosy treatment.
  • Until the advent of sulpha-based drugs, chaulmoogra oil was acknowledged by the international scientific community to be the only medicine known to Western medical science that was effective in treating the disease.
  • Finally, an expedition sent by the United States found the chaulmoogra tree in the forests of Burma.
  • People went from worshipping snakes or the sun god, or trying to get bitten by a cobra, to giving chaulmoogra oil by rubbing, orally, or by injection, and then from using sulphones to multidrug therapy.
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