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Show oo CHEMIST FIDS NEW REMEDY BERKELEY. Cal., Sept 28. Having discovered a chemical substance which has proven remarkably successful, in curing wounds and in causing wounds to heal at once which for months, or een years, had refused to yi,eld to treatment, Dr. T. Brallsford Robertson, professor of biochemistry in the University Uni-versity of California, has just executed execut-ed a deed donating to the University of California all his patent rights in this valuable new substance, "Tethe-lin." "Tethe-lin." All profits resulting from the discovery are to constitute an endowment, endow-ment, the income to be applied to medical med-ical research. ' Tests of this new substance, made in army hospitals in Europe and in civil hospitals in America, have proved the great value of the discovery, The appalling ap-palling number of men wounded In the present war makes the discovery of especial timeliness and value. Several Sev-eral new substances and new methods have been found by the medical investigators in-vestigators of the world since the war began which are extremely useful in combating infections in wounds. The new substance, however, "Tethelln," has a field of usefulness all its own after other methods have rendered the tissues aseptic, and wounds still sometimes some-times refuse to heal especially where .frostbite, burns, or varicose veins have injured the vitality of the tissues. There are thousands of such cases in Europe today and they occupy the hospitals hos-pitals for an exceptionally long time, consuming drugs, space, and food and frequently such caBes have to be discharged dis-charged unhealed. It is precisely these, cases the most expensive and most disabling types of wounds which "Tethelin" will benefit. Since it stimulates stim-ulates the sluggish tissues and enables nature to work its own repair. Not only In old wounds has "Tethelin" "Tethe-lin" been found valuable. It has been found tha( often open sores which for years have refused to heal have at once yielded to treatment with this new drug. In the past, the scientific man's discoveries dis-coveries have usually been left for the "profiteer" to grow rich from. Wish- ' ing that the large prospective profits from his discovery of "Tethelin should be devoted not to private profit, prof-it, but to the stimulation and support of further discoveries for tho further benefit of mankind, Professor Robertson Robert-son has relinquished all personal prof-It prof-It from his discovery of this growth promoting substance. In tho agree-, ment by which tho regents of the University Uni-versity of California have now accepted accept-ed the trusteeship of this endowment for medical research itis provided that In case Professor Robertson should ever become phys'ically disabled dis-abled his present university salary should be continued to him throughout his lifetime, from the proceeds of the discovery, or in 'case of his death, to his wife for her lifetime. All Income above this will go to endow an institute insti-tute of medical research, devoted to research in medicine, and especially the research in the physiology, chemistry chemis-try and pathology of growth. |