Show Secret Brights Bright's Disease D sease Treatment Made Known DETROIT April 11 AP AP-A AP A extract that promises a treatment treatment treatment treat treat- ment for now incurable Brights Bright's disease e was reported for the first time toda today oday at a meeting of the Federation of cr American Societies for Experimental Experimental mental Biology Brights Bright's disease is one of the Uc doz dozen n foremost causes of ot death in the United States The extract described today has been een under strictly secret investigation tion lon for about three years cars under sponsorship of oC the chemical tion ion It was given to persons in inoma coma oma after hope had been aban- aban Some revived others were wholly unaffected The reason for this his difference is still sought In the clinic cUnic of the late Allen AUen Winter Vinter Rowe at Boston a number of f Brights Bright's disease patients nUmber were tried About half hal improved Re Re- Re-I Re suIts were negative on the others Today's report was vas a strictly scientific scientific sd- sd description for the first time of the nature and effects of the new substance It was made before the Ph Physiological society by Benjamin Jablons M. M D. D Df of New York City who vho refrained from reporting any of the clinical work on human be- be ings Reports of the experiments came ame from sources outside the medical med med- lent cal profession The extract is taken from kidneys of f hogs he reported Extraction fn tn pure form is still difficult It causes a drop in blood pressure in n both humans and animals It also increases excretion of salt The increased excretion of salt may explain explain ex ex- plain the mechanism of its favorable favorable favor favor- able ablo action on kidney trouble The extracts extract's effect on salt regulation regulation regu- regu lation in the body is Is' Is considered the key to understanding its effects Dr Jablons said there are arc evidences evidences evi evi- dences of oC the existence of other substances in the liver lver which come along with the tho extract and arc are hard to o purify out of oC it which have the opposite effects |