Show scientists call metal an Es j in keeping blood red ann arbor aitor mich copper the red Is no an essential factor in the diet to keep the blood red and the body vigorous a group of university of wisconsin chemists headed beaded by dr E B hart announced here tit at the meeting of the american coclet of biological chemists copper may become acknowledged as 63 one of the more essential requisites in human nutrition and livestock feeding the wisconsin experiments indicate that it exerts a tremendous influence oo on anemia in rats a disease similar to anemia to in children who have been fed exclusively on milk the malady in both rat and child is caused by a deficiency of hemoglobin in the blood stream A sh shortage orlage of iron has been cred laed with being responsible for the disorder and although iron compounds are still limiting factors their effectiveness ti veness according to wisconsin in depends on the presence or absence of copper the investigations covered four our years and doctor hart bart was assisted by his colleagues dr U C A elvehjem and 3 waddell bee bec use milk Is notoriously low in iron and hemoglobin Is rich in the mineral it has always been assumed that the way to correct anemia was to add iron to the milk diet in ili the case of animals this plan proved ineffective the dally daily feeding of iron administered as chloride sulphate citrate or phosphate all prepared froni from pure iron wire did not check the decline in the hemoglobin content of the blood rats suffering with anemia were not improved flo Hone wever vcr when a supply of iron was obtained by feeding dried liver or the ash of dried liver corn or lettuce the hemoglobin was raised to normal ant and the stricken rats immediately restored to health in ashing the foodstuffs the investigators noted a pole pale bluish color tile hie typical hue produced when apper compounds are barred observations ions of hiis tiis peculiar color in addition to the fact that respiratory pigment of certain led the chemists to use copper sulphate ns as a supplement to pure pum ter fer ric alc chloride in the whole milk diet striking ng cures resulted rats so anemic that their eyes were numbered recovered and the hemoglobin to in their blood was brought to normal what about pernicious anemia in imin tile the chemists asked patients suffering buffering with anemia have been told to eat liver advice which has evident ly made a wide impression judging from the rise in price of what wab once poor mans roest meat however soine sufferers BulTer ers find liver unpalatable espe dally a hen eaten in large quantities harvard university scientists have prepared a liver extract which has proved exceedingly efficacious in abating the di disease sense in the wisconsin experiments this product was asbed and fed the |