IMPORTANT DISCOVERY

Dominion, Volume 29, Issue 196, 16 May 1936, Page 24

IMPORTANT DISCOVERY

Hope for Pernicious Anaemia

A discovery as important in the field of pernicious anaemia as insulin is in regard to diabetes has been made and is now confirmed by investigators of the Medical Research Council. The new substance has been given the name of anahaemln, and it is claimed that almost instantly it cures pernicious anaemia, which ten years ago was considered incurable. The substance anahaemin is the active principle found in the liver of the healthy individual, and, which it is established, can be used to secure the recovery of people who would otherwise die from this disease. Until 1026 there was no known cure for this disease. Then it was found that a daily dose of half a ]>ound of fresh liver secured improvement in health, but in order to continue that improvement and to prolong the life of the” patient this diet had. to be persistent,

Tiie discovery has largely been due to Dr. 11. D. Dakin, a London man, who had settled in the United States, but who returned to this country to perfect his work in this connection.

At the invitation of the Research Council, Professor Stanley Davidson, of Aberdeen. Professor E. J- Wayne, of Sheffield, and Dr. C. C. Ungley. of New-castle-on-Tyne. undertook to test samples of anahaemin. It was found that patients treated with it recovered their health within a f.ew weeks.

The report of the Medical Research Council on the experts’ findings was that:

"To anyone mindful of the almost certain death that followed the development of pernicious anaemia even so recently as ten years ago, the recovery that folloffs these minute injections of anti-anaemic principle seems little short of miraculous,®