DRUGS AND MEDICAL EQUIPMENT
Sydney, Nov. 25. The production of medical and dental equipment and drugs, all of which were formerly imported, was one of Australia’s major wartime achievements, said the Minister of Supply, Mr Beasley. The Minister announced that Australia was supplying the Pacific area with serums and vaccines and was exporting to the Allies many delicate surgical instruments and drugs. “We are sending surgical catgut and hypodermic syringes to New Zealand and India,” he said. “We are making sulphanilamide and sulphaguadine, two vitally important drugs, and morphia has already been produced from Aus-tralian-grown poppies and a special factory will soon be producing large quantities of this drug. Hyoscine and atrophine, two important alkaloids in medical treatment, are being produced from the Australian duboisia. Three other medical products made in Australia for the first time include ascorbic acid and vitaminised fish oil.”
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 78, 26 November 1943, Page 2
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