Category Archives: Medicine

Anyone know if this is Johnny Noble, the famous singer? 1912.

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Here is the Cure for Hawaiians!

This is the medicine made with skill by John A. Noble, called NEWTON OINTMENT, which cures all type of skin ailments like rashes, eczema, skin odor, hemorrhoids, cuts, burns, and so forth.

This Medicine is available at Drug Stores and other stores around the Island for 25c. for a box.

THERE HAVE BEEN MANY WHO daubed this Medicine, and they all were cured. Therefore, to all those who have skin ailments, try the ointment of the Hawaiian Boy, called

—NEWTON OINTMENT—

If it is not available at the stores, send to JOHN A. NOBLE through the post office, Number 2450 Puunui. 6 boxes for $1.50; 25c. for one box.

(Hawaii Holomua, 4/10/1912, p. 16)

Eia ke Ola o na Hawaii!

Hawaii Holomua, Buke I, Helu 6, Aoao 16. Aperila 10, 1912.

Commentary on the state of leprosy, 1879.

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Those with Leprosy.—In the afternoon of this past Wednesday, more leprosy patients were taken to a place set apart for those unfortunate people, at Kalawao, Molokai. One reason for the lack of eradication of this disease eating away at the lives of our people, is that friends hide away their sick. Here in this town and areas right outside are those with leprosy who were hidden for many months. In Ewa there are people living, afflicted with this disease but have not been found by the agent of the Board of Health [Papa Ola]. They went into the mountains to live, and perhaps it has been over a year that they have lived in the forests; or maybe some months, descending to the houses of friends at night. It is as if they are carrying the disease where they go and are spreading it amongst the healthy people. This is not right. And that is perhaps one of the reasons that this disease keeps multiplying between us.

(Kuokoa, 7/19/1879, p. 4)

Na Lepera.

Ka Nupepa Kuokoa, Buke XVIII, Helu 29, Aoao 4. Iulai 19, 1879.

Kalawao bodies exhumed for study, 1884.

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We’ve received word that more bodies were exhumed of patients in Kalawao, Molokai, under the orders of the German [Eduard Arning], because of his great desire to find the reasons for the deaths by the disease of which it is said:

1 E aha ia ana Hawaii
E nei mai o ka lepera.
Mai hookae a ka lehulehu
Ili ulaula ili keokeo.

2 Kuhikuhi mai hoi na lima
A he mai pake koiala
Kulou au a holo
Komo ka hilahila i ka houpo.

[1 What is up with Hawaii
With this disease, leprosy
Disease hated by the masses
By the dark skinned and the white skinned.

2 The hand points this way
“That one there has leprosy [mai pake]”
I look down and flee
Shame filling my heart.]

[“Ke Ola o Hawaii” is yet another newspaper that is available on microfilm that ulukau for some reason chose not to digitize. Hopefully this will be corrected soon!]

(Ola o Hawaii, 3/22/1884, p. 3)

Ua loaa mai ia makou kekahi lono...

Ke Ola o Hawaii, Buke I, Helu 11, Aoao 3. Maraki 22, 1884.

Typhoid Fever, 1912.

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[Found under: “Various News”]

Honolulu, Aug. 27—Typhoid fever has spread severely in the district of Waimanalo, and there are a great many people who have been inflicted with the fever; the Board of Health [Papa Ola] is working to extinguish this frightening disease.

(Hoku o Hawaii, 8/29/1912, p. 3)

Honolulu, Aug. 27...

Ka Hoku o Hawaii, Buke 7, Helu 13, Aoao 3. Augate 29, 1912.

Two interesting testimonials appearing in the same issue, 1892.

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VERIFICATION OF THE TRUTH.

Honolulu, April 4, 1892.

I hereby attest, I am the one whose name appears below; in order to verify the miraculous works of Mr. Marcus W. Lowell, and so that the public knows, he treated my wife in 1886 after she contracted the disease known as the sickness that separates families [ma’i hookaawale ohana]; he treated her and she got much better than with the doctors who treated her. She suffered for ten years from this sickness, and within a month, Mr. Lowell saved her because of his aloha he had for my wife during that time.

To attest to this, I place my name here.

John Kahikina Kelekona.

(Leo o ka Lahui, 4/8/1892, p. 2)

HE HOIKE AKU I KA OIAIO.

Ka Leo o ka Lahui, Buke II, Helu 428, Aoao 2. Aperila 8, 1892.

CURE FOR CANCER.

Honolulu, March 24, 1892.

I, George Campton, carpenter, have been a resident of these Islands for the last 14 years. In the last year 1891 I suffered from cancer in the leg, and through the advice of a friend I had Mr. Lowell to see it. I suffered the most excruciating pain and has confined to my bed for weeks, when Mr. Lowel saw me and told me he thought he could cure it, and to my utter astonishment, in one month from the time Mr. Lowell first saw it it was cured. It is now nearly three months since and has all the appearance of a complete cure. In three weeks from the time Mr. Lowell first saw me I was able to go about my dusiness. Any one desiring further information can call on me at 36 King St.

(Leo o ka Lahui, 4/8/1892, p. 4)

CURE FOR CANCER.

Ka Leo o ka Lahui, Buke II, Helu 428, Aoao 4. Aperila 8, 1892.

Fireworks accident #3, 1912.

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DYNAMITE WENT OFF AND HAND FLEW.

When Robert Kaleiheana, the blacksmith of Waialua, was attempting this past Sunday to go over the top when he was commemorating the death of the old year and the birth of the new, his right hand flew off, and should he be saved from this unfortunate accident which befell upon him, he will join the Hokake Ipukai club of Waialua [?]. When all of Waialua’s people were in on the celebration of the last hour of that old man that died [the year 1911] by making all the deafening noises that they could. Firecrackers were one of the noise makers that were set off, but to top this noise so that all those above, and below, here, and there of Waialua could hear, Kaleiheana set ablaze some stick of dynamite to make a bigger bang. He held the dynamite for a long time in his right hand, after he set the fuse on fire. When the powder exploded, his right hand was scattered about, it was all shredded until the wrist.

The police were fetched, and the doctor was brought as well. This injury he received was severe, but he will not be in danger, and yet he will be maimed.

(Kuokoa Home Rula, 1/5/1912, p. 1)

PAHU KE GIANA PAUDA LELE KA LIMA.

Kuokoa Home Rula, Buke X, Helu 1, Aoao 1. Ianuari 5, 1912.

Fireworks accident #2, 1912.

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HAND BLOWN UP BY DYNAMITE

To celebrate the passing of the old year and so too the arrival of the new year, Robert Kaleiheana of Waialua got into an accident when his hand was blown up by dynamite this past Sunday; however his injuries were not terribly severe.

According to the news of that explosion, there were many Waialua people entertaining themselves by setting off fireworks, but what Kaleiheana was setting off was dynamite, and because he held on to the stick of powder in his hand for too long, that was why he got in trouble when the fuse caught on fire until the explosion.

His hand is what was hurt, and the police were informed, and the injured was treated immediately; and from what they say, his injuries were not very severe.

(Kuokoa, 1/5/1912, p. 1)

PA-HULA KA LIMA E KE KiANA PAUDA

Ka Nupepa Kuokoa, Buke XLVIII, Helu 1, Aoao 1. Ianuari 5, 1912.

Fireworks accident #1, 1912.

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[Found under: “ACCIDENTS OF THE NEW YEAR.”]

From down in Waialua it was heard that the hand of that Hawaiian named Kaleiheana was severed and flew because of the explosion of the gun powder which he held. Everyone of that land famed for the sea spray was celebrating the new year, and were setting off firecrackers and other noise makers, and because Kaleiheana thought that the firecrackers weren’t powerful enough, he took some dynamite and lit the fuse; while he mistakenly believed that the fuse wasn’t burning, that was when that dynamite exploded and his hand flew. Kaleiheana is under doctor’s care, and it is believed that he will be saved, but he will be disfigured for the rest of his life.

(Aloha Aina, 1/6/1912, p. 2)

Mailalo mai o Waialua...

Ke Aloha Aina, Buke XVI, Helu 1, Aoao 2. Ianuari 6, 1912.

Back to smallpox, 1881,

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[Found under “Hawaii News”]

Upon the schooner, “Mana,” there appeared a case of smallpox in the cook, as the ship was sailing for Hawaii. It returned to Honolulu, and all aboard were quarantined, and the sick person was taken to the hospital at Kahakaaulana. When the illness starts appearing, perhaps only one thing can save us, that is by us being vaccinated, when Hanakapahu [another name for smallpox] strikes with his merciless tongue.

(Ko Hawaii Pae Aina, 1/8/1881, p. 3)

Ua puka ae maluna o ka moku kuna "Mana"...

Ko Hawaii Pae Aina, Buke IV, Helu 2, Aoao 3. Ianuari 8, 1881.

More on smallpox outbreak, 1881.

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The Killer “Bumpy Disease” in Honolulu.

The scary killer disease of 1853 has appeared once again within this town, and has spread its roots throughout the Kona district in no time. We are in possession of the list of the sick, from the 4th of December 1880 up until yesterday, and the total reached 53. Seven of them are haole, 12 are Chinese, and the rest are all Hawaiians. One haole died of the illness, and one hung himself. Just one Hawaiian has died, Lilia Keawe, a hapa haole.

We strongly urge, in the case where one of you is afflicted, O People of Honolulu, to quickly make it known at the prison, and the government will treat you at no cost. Do not try to conceal it, or it will become an epidemic.

(Ko Hawaii Pae Aina, 2/12/1881, p. 2)

KA MAI PUUPUU LUKU MA HONOLULU

Ko Hawaii Pae Aina, Buke IV, Helu 7, Aoao 2. Feberuari 12, 1881.