Statewide County HI Archives Biographies.....Hollman, Harry Triebner December 13, 1878 - 
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Source: The Story of Hawaii and Its Builders. Published by the Honolulu Star Bulletin, Territory of Hawaii, 1925
Author: Edited by George F. Nellist

HARRY TRIEBNER HOLLMAN, Physician. Internationally recognized as an authority 
on leprosy, Dr. Harry T. Hollmann of Honolulu is credited with having 
originated its treatment with the ethyl esters extracts of chaulmoogra oil, 
which has been sensationally effective, checking the ravages of the disease 
and having effected apparent cures. The chaulmoogra oil specific, which was 
perfected as a result of Dr. Hollmann’s early work in Honolulu, is now in 
general use throughout the world where leprosy exists. Scores of former lepers 
have been released from detention in Hawaii as a result of treatment.
  Born in Philadelphia, Dec. 13, 1878, the son of Harry and Mary (Thomas) 
Hollmann, Dr. Hollmann was educated in the public schools of Philadelphia, 
Temple University and Medico Chirurgical College, now a part of the University 
of Pennsylvania, where he received his M.D. degree in 1898.
  He began his professional career as an instructor of pathology and 
bacteriology in the Medico Chirurgical College in 1898; from 1903 to 1906 he 
was a physician of the Philadelphia Bureau of Health, and in 1905-6 he was 
visiting ear, nose and throat surgeon at the Philadelphia General Hospital.
  Having developed an interest in the great problem presented to science by 
leprosy, he was appointed assistant superintendent of the leper settlement of 
the island of Molokai in 1906, and was transferred to the United States 
Leprosy Investigation Station, Honolulu, the following year. He was one of the 
first scientists to grow the organism which causes leprosy and was the first 
to cultivate the germ of “Rat leprosy.”
  In 1917 and 1918, Dr. Hollmann was director of the Leprosy Investigation 
Station of the United States Public Health Service and medical superintendent 
of the Kalihi Hospital, later resigning to become superintendent of the 
Queen’s Hospital for one year, following which he entered private practice in 
Honolulu . he is the author of many articles on leprosy and skin diseases 
which have been published by the U. S. Public Health Service. Dr. Hollmann is 
now engaged in private practice, specializing in dermatology and urology.
  He is a past District Deputy Grand Sire, I. O. O. F., for Hawaii; Past 
Grand, Harmony Lodge, I.O.O.F.; Past Chief Patriarch, Polynesian Encampment, 
I.O.O.F.; Past Worthy Patron, Lei Aloha Chapter, O.E.S.; a 32nd degree Mason, 
Shriner, honorary member the Sons and Daughters of Hawaiian Warriors, and a 
member of the Honolulu Golf Club.


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