HAWAIIAN ISLANDS. 



55 



main under observation, and from which a large num- 

 ber will be recruited for the settlement as soon as an 

 absolute diagnosis can be made. 



Dr. W. J. Goodhue, a recent graduate of Rush Met Il- 

 eal College, has taken up the cause of the Molokai 

 lepers, and is the present resident medical superin- 

 tendent. He has already introduced many reforms, 

 and is earnestly seeking a remedy that will cure his 

 patients. He continues the Goto treatment, but has 

 no faith in it. At the suggestion of the board of health 



Fig. 13. — Queen's Hospital. Honolulu, established by King Kame- 

 hameha III and Queen Emma in 1860. 



he is also experimenting with the "Violet Ray." At 

 present he is encouraged by the results of sodium caco- 

 dylate. In his report, he says: "In sodium cacodylate, 

 an arsenical derivative of relatively slight toxicity con- 

 taining over 50 per cent, of arsenic, I believe I have 

 found a remedy of great promise in the treatment of 

 leprosy. My attention was first attracted to the remedy 

 by clinical reports of the success attained with it in the 

 treatment of psoriasis, and in diseases in which the 

 wasting and disassimilation are marked features, al- 



