The Treatment of Leprosy with Gurjun Oil

Sir,?That empiricism in the treatment of leprosy, pro forma, has been in vogue from time immemorial, perpetually advocating and propounding a something new is beyond controversy. Since the infantile days of medicine the followers of Esculapius have indented largely on the animal, vegetable, and mineral kingdoms. The proof of this is to be found in the history of this malady, for we find the classic physician, Hippocrates, extolling the therapeutic virtue which he found innate in the muscle of that much maltreated but exceeding good, useful, virtuous and long-lived animal, the donkey,?but whether the tissues of that animal and it itself have undergone any changes for the bad we are unable to