INFORMATION
This plant has been used with great success in lepra. Dr. Boileau, residing in the Mauritius, employed this remedy in fifty-seven cases of lepra, in all of which the disease was arrested in a very short time. Experiments have been instituted by several other physicians at the Mauritius and in the Paris hospitals, with very favorable results. It promises to becomes a very efficacious remedy for skin-diseases, more especially elephantiasis. If administered in doses of four drachms, the drug causes vertigo, disturbed vision, heat in the face, perspiration on the parts affected with lepra. After the perspiration ceases the disease makes no further progress. From large doses patients experience a weight at the stomach and colic. Devergie found the Hydrocotyle of surprising use in five cases of the most inveterate eczema; four of which were completely and rapidly cured.
