Treatment

A milk diet is the best for the elephantiasis patient, and if it is a possible thing a change of climate should be made.

I cannot recommend Esmarch's bandage, neither amputation, as I have never seen any benefit from either expedient.

Relief, and occasionally beneficial results, come from the use of hamamelis or chaulmoogra oil dressings.Myristica sebifera is the main internal remedy. Hydrocotyle Asiatica has been recommended, as have also Ana-cardium orientate and Eleis guineensis.