Show wonder monder heart arit latest bis bl fuu find proves highly efficient it in experimental stal singe le SAN francisco francasco A new syn drug promises to become as useful in the treatment of 0 heart diseases as penicillin and sulfa drugs ae afe in their fields was described at the annual sym podium on heart disease in san francisco I 1 the new drug called was said to bel ba producing remarkable results iri iii the libe treatment of cor conary thrombosis apoplexy pulmonary and phlebitis still in the experimental stage must be administered only by spec specially tilli trained practitioners under careful supervision existence was revealed by col arving S wright ol of the army medical corps clinical professor ol of medicine at columbia university college of physicians and surgeon burgeons t g devel development ment of f the drug began more than 20 years ago when two midwestern veterinarians went to prof karl paul link a biochemist of the university of wisconsin with the problem of why cows were bleeding to death dr link learned the cows had fed on spoiled clover experimenting he found that their blood would not clot or coagulate he further learned that one constituent of clover cou cour marln narin found in all green plants underwent a chemical c hange change when clover spoiled becoming he suggested that this substance acted on the clotting agent of blood to prevent coagulation when his suggestion was printed in a tech technical neal journal medical researchers at the university of wisconsin the mayo clinic and at the columbia postgraduate post graduate school of medicine went to work narin was isolated synthesized and under the name Idi didium um arol used cynically in all three institutions wright said development of the substance marks a step in the effort to find a drug which will prevent blood blod dotting such as takes place in apoplexy coronary thrombosis and other heart ailments |