An Interactive Annotated World Bibliography of Printed and Digital Works in the History of Medicine and the Life Sciences from Circa 2000 BCE to 2024 by Fielding H. Garrison (1870-1935), Leslie T. Morton (1907-2004), and Jeremy M. Norman (1945- ) Traditionally Known as “Garrison-Morton”

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POWER, Frederick Belding

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The constituents of chaulmoogra seeds.

J., chem. Soc., 85, 838-51, 1904.

Hydnocarpus wightiana or Chaulmoogra is a tree in the Achariaceae family. The oil from seeds of Hydnocarpus wightiana or Chaulmoogra, a tree in the Achariaceae family, was widely used in Indian medicine and Chinese traditional medicine for the treatment of leprosy and other skin diseases. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.



Subjects: DERMATOLOGY, INDIA, Practice of Medicine in, INFECTIOUS DISEASE › Leprosy, PHARMACOLOGY › PHARMACEUTICALS › Botanic Sources of Single Component Drugs › Chaulmoogra, PHARMACOLOGY › PHARMACEUTICALS › Anti-Leprosy Drugs