Springville Herald | 1949-11-03 | Page 5 | Work of Utah Man Receives Plaudits

Work of Utah Man Receives Plaudits A Utah doctor is one of the leaders in a national fight to develop de-velop new techniques of fighting anemia, the slow-down sickness that drains the energy of several hunderd thousand Americans, says a national woman's magazine. Foremost in the fight against anemia is Dr. Maxwell M. Win-trobe, Win-trobe, physician-in-chief at the Salt Lake General hospital, writes Dickson Hartwell in the November Woman's Home Companion. Dr. Wintrobe has developed important im-portant new methods in the treatment treat-ment of anemia. The mos,t dramatic drama-tic developments have been the production of three new drugs which promise to alleviate or end the "tired feeling" which is the common denominator of slightly anemic men and women who never are really well but seldom really ill. "But the most important recent development outranking even the 'therapeutic miracles' as the new drug?, are called is the great advance ad-vance toward precise diagnosis of anemia," writes Mr. Hartwell. First, anemia is now recognized as a symptom of a variety of basic illnesses. It is not a disease in itself; it-self; second, anemia, the danger signal, is now eaily detected; third, the effects of many anemias can usually be relieved; fourth, the causes of anemia can increasingly be eliminated by recent advances in related fields of medicine, says the article.