This drug has long been in use by the Fakirs of India, and was first introduced to the profession by Dr. Monat, of the Bengal Medical Service, in 1854, since which time a number of favorable accounts of its use have appeared in the medical press. It is administered internally, in doses of from five to thirty grains, and externally in the form of ointment. Native Indian practitioners direct their patients, while taking the chaulmoogra to avoid all salt meats, acids, spices, and sweetmeats, but to aid its operation with butter and oily articles of food. Dr. Hobson occasionally gave saline aperients in connection with the oil.

In a case of Leprosy, at the Charity Hospital, under the care of Dr.

* "Cardol vesicans" of commerce, the product of the Anacardium Occidentale. See p. 17.

Sturgis and myself, very decided benefit has followed the use of chaul-moogra (143, July 10, '80, 46).