Salt Lake Telegram | 1932-01-14 | Page 8 | [Illegible] Extract Injected into Veins [Illegible] Patients in New Plan Designed [Illegible] for Treatment of Anemia Cases

Injected Into Veins in New Plan Designed For Treatment of Anemia Cases I 1 Describe Success of ofin in Building Red Corpuscles HERLE OLIVER fd d Press Staff Writer BOR Mick Mich Jan 14 A 14 A lew ew aria and treatment for permia per per- cious mia eliminating many of the he tin and difficulties of oC resent has been perfected per per- scientists at Uni- Uni 01 tit Michigan The new treatment involves Intravenous Intra enous venous injection of concentrated liver and obviates the necessity ol or doses of liver liver extract I jr r r substitutes admin administered by mouth ind nd against which patients rebel p 1 Experiments leading to this development devel ment were earned carried on during the thc ast several sc months at the Thomas enry Simpson memorial institute for or medical research at the ity it of ot Michigan under direction of I Doctors Raphael Isaacs l and Cyrus C C. C Sturgis The institute was endowed by Mrs Thomas H. H Simpson of Detroit Detroit Detroit De De- troit for study of pernicious anemia EXTRACTS PURIFIED The intravenous extract of or liver Is necessary for patients who are too ill to take medicine by mouth Liver extracts extracts extracts ex ex- tracts for or intravenous use have been prepared previously by others but because of or the presence of certain unknown unknown unknown un un- un- un known substances there are arc serious reactions such as headache chills and fall of blood pressure The Simpson Simp Simp- son staff has succeeded In so purifyIng purifying purify purify- ing the thc extract that now reactions are eliminated The new extract is 15 to 30 times more potent than the extracts given by mouth The newest discovery followed allowed earlier work which resulted in the development of dried hogs hog's stomach as a substitute for liver in treatment of ot the disease Hogs Hog's stomach known as was announced b by the institute In 1929 and was widely accepted accepted accepted ac ac- ac- ac in the m medical dic 11 profession as being much more concentrated and less odious to the patient than liver I IThe The new treatment promises to excell both previous methods in benefits bene its to sufferers RESTORE BLOOD COUNT Four to six injections of the new extract into the veins of a pernicious anemia sufferer have restored the blood alood count to normal After Alter the blood has been replenished with red corpuscles it is possible to maintain this state by single injections at intervals intervals intervals inter inter- vals of ot from four tour to six weeks It Is not necessary that the patient be DC confined to a B hospital for tor this treatment the doctors said as gen en- en leral oral eral practitioners soon will be supplied supplied supplied sup sup- plied with the extract Previous to the discovery that eating eating eat eat- ing liver would relieve pernicious anemia sufferers were doomed to almost almost almost al al- al- al most certain death To regain health under the first treatment it was necessary essary to eat cat about a half halt pound of liver a day for five rive or six weeks anI and to continue on a slightly reduced diet for Cor an indefinite period The patients revolted against this constant liver diet The newly discovered method of oC treatment relieves the sufferer from froman an any necessity of ot dieting and renders him comparatively free from constant I medical attention