Ixxviti Proceedings of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. [N.S., XV, 
moogra and hydnocarpus oils in forms suitable for subcutane- 
ous and intravenous injection for use in the treatment of 
leprosy, and also during the last year of a similar preparation 
from codliver oil, which appears to be of considerable value 
both in leprosy, and in that greatest scourge of suffering hu- 
manity, tuberculosis, which is estimated to destroy one-seventh 
of mankind mostly when in the prime of life: a subject I shall 
be dealing with in the medical research section, and for the 
chemical portion of the work on which I am indebted to Dr. 
houg of the 
mouth lesions 1 suggest that this affection should be further 
studied bacteriologically on the lines which have enabled me 
to cure many cases of sprue by oral streptococcal vaccines, an 
advance which has recently been confirmed by Dr. Nicholls of 
the bacteriological institute at Colombo. Once more sodium 
azar a colloidal antimony sulphide very kindly made for me by 
r. F. L. Usher of Bangalore at the suggestion of our energetic 
secretary Dr. Simonsen, and have found it to be even more 
effective and much less toxic than the antimony salts already 
mentioned, and J think it may also e of great value in 
