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particular just as used, and are of interest for comparison with the 

 medical field equipment of our own forces. 



Dr. Samuel L. Hilton, Washington, D. C, former president of the 

 American Pharmaceutical Association, contributed a series of his- 

 torical books. Included in the collection are the revision circulars 

 of the United States Pharmacopoeia IX and National Formulary 

 IV, the standards for medicines used in this country; Bulletins of 

 the American Pharmaceutical Association, an early official publica- 

 tion of this association ; Twentieth Anniversary Volume of the Chi- 

 cago Veteran Druggists' Association, containing j)ictures of men who 

 have had a great deal to do with the advancement of pharmacy and 

 medicine in the United States; memorial volumes concerning such 

 well-known instructors and writers as Joseph P. Remington, Oscar 

 Oldberg, and Albert E. Ebert. 



Dr. George A. Faber, 45 Center Street, Waterbury, Conn., donated 

 through Dr. John Uri Lloyd, of Cincinnati, Ohio, as a memorial to 

 Dr. S. B. Munn, a complete set of the National Eclectic Medical As- 

 sociation Transactions from 1870 to 1916. These books are of un- 

 usual historic interest because they record the activities of an earnest 

 group of scientific men who influenced the development of medicine 

 and pharmacy in this countr3^ 



The Museum is indebted to Dr. F. B. Power of the Phytochemical 

 Laboratory, Bureau of Chemistry, U. S. Department of Agriculture, 

 for a series of specimens transferred from that department, which 

 illustrates the use of chaulmoogra oil derivatives in the treatment of 

 leprosy in the leper settlement of Molokai, Hawaii. Although crude 

 chaulmoogra oil expressed from the seeds had been in use hundreds 

 of years by the natives of India in the treatment of leprosy as a 

 local application and internal medicine, the results obtained were 

 uncertain and the treatment in many cases caused the formation of 

 terrible abscesses. Through the studies of French and English 

 scientists it was proved that one cause of the uncertain results was the 

 use of the seeds of several closely related species of' plants, some of 

 which w^ere of no medicinal value. When the identity of the true 

 chaulmoogra oil was determined, an American chemist. Dr. Fred- 

 erick B. Power, who was then in charge of the Wellcome Chemical 

 Research Laboratories, London, England, isolated and described its 

 active chemical constituents and prepared the ethyl esters of chaul- 

 moogric acid. Dr. A. L. Dean, president of the University of 

 Ilawaii, and doctors of tlie Kalihi Receiving Station in Honolulu, 

 worked out a standard treatment for leprosy cases based on the re- 

 searches of Dr. Power, which is giving most astonishing results. By 

 this treatment the ethyl esters of chaulmoogric acid are administered 

 intramuscularly. 



