Alepol in Leprosy
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drug exerting a beneficial action in leprosy for a very long time in India, but as the drug could not be given in sufficiently large doses the treatment was not very successful. In 1914 Heiser gave the oil by injection, and his work was followed by that of Rogers who in 1915 began his attempts to find out the active constituents of the oil. In 1916 Rogers demonstrated that sodium gynocardate was effective
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