PERNICIOUS ANAEMIA

Greymouth Evening Star, 26 November 1927, Page 2

PERNICIOUS ANAEMIA

NEW TREATMENT DISCOVERED. There is reason to believe that a satisfactory treatment for the disease known as pernicious anaemia has been found (writes the medical correspondent of the London “Times”). The treatment, which was introduced by Minot and Murphy last year in an article in the Journal of the American Medical Association, consists in the administration of cooked liver to sufferers from the disease. Since then further trials have been carried out by other workers, and these have confirmed the value of the method. “As far as is known,” the British Medical Journal states, “the improvement can be maintained permanently. . . . The therapeutic value of the liver diet has been confirmed by other clinicians in America, in this country, and in France.” TREATMENT OF ERYSIPELAS.

“The Times’s” New York correspondent telegraphed on October 13: — According to a report of the Bellevue Hospital the results of treatment of erysipelas by anti-toxin have been gratifying. Dr. Douglas Symriiers and Dr. Kenneth iyi. Lewis, who conducted tests on 131 patients, state that the ordinary mortality was reduced by 50 per cent., and that in from three to seven days 85 per cent, of face cases were cured, the rest being cured in from 10 to 12 days. The treatment was expensive and beyond the reach of the ordinary patient, but there was reason to believe that boards of health would soon be able to furnish erysipelas anti-toxin with the same freedom as diphtheria anti-toxin is now distributed.