Anaemia Research

Manawatu Times, Volume LV, Issue 6747, 4 January 1932, Page 9

Anaemia Research

SECOND FORM DISCOVERY. Secondary anaemia in dogs is cured by a new and palatable extract of livet found at the University of Rochester School of Medicine. This discovery was made by the same group of scientists whose original laboratory work helped to lead to development by others of the spectacular cures of pernicious anaemia with liver ex tracts. The secondary anaemia work is of the same kind, done with animals in a pioneering quest. Secondary anaemia is a common human affliction, fore frequently found than pernicious anaemia, though not so fatal. Its causes differ radically from those of the pernicious type. Tho new extract was developed by Dr. G. H. Whipple, dean of the Medical School; F. S. Robscheit-Robbins and G B. Wa-ldon. The fact that it is palatable is important because one of tho problems of using liver for pernicious anaemia has been tho rebellion of tho stomach at taking the quantities needed for relief. This latest extract is a light-coloured powder. It is obtained from fresh liver, and when finally prepared weighs only 3 per cent, of tho whole liver, yet contains 65 to 75 per cent, of the potency of whole liver. The Rochester experiments indicate that in the cure of anaemia more than one factor of diet is involved. The liver extract which relieves pernicious anaemia has little effect on the secondary form. Ashes of apricots and ashes of kidneys show potency towards curing the secondary form. Iron appears to be one of tho elements needed in secondary anaemia.