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A NOTE in NATURE (vol. xxi. p. 19) refers to a remedy for leprosy, obtained from Cochin-China, but the origin of which is imperfectly known. Its name is given as hwang-nao. In Mr. Consul Tremlett's Report (For. Off. Repts. No. 21, p. 1237) it appears as hoang-nau. We have taken a good deal of trouble about this drug at Kew, and the inclosed extract from the Kew Report for 1877, p. 31, contains all that has been positively ascertained about it at present:—
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DYER, W. A Cochin-China Remedy for Leprosy . Nature 21, 35 (1879). https://doi.org/10.1038/021035a0
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