CURE FOR ANEMIA

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 16622, 14 April 1928, Page 8

CURE FOR ANEMIA

COOKED LIVER OE LA IMB Oil BEEF EFFECTIVE. VANCOUVER, Feb. 8. Pernicious anemia can be controlled by the judicious and persistent consumption of liver to the extent of about five ounces per day for adults. Despatches from Eastern Canada and Harvard University to this effect, are confirmed by Dr. K. E. McKechnie, of this city. "It is well known to medical men that pernicious anemia can be controlled by a. diet including liver," said Dr. McKechnie. For wore than a year anemic patients at the Vancouver hospitals have been treated for the ailment with liver, he said. "The Conna light Laboratories of Toronto, in affiliation with the University of Toronto," continued Dr. McKechnie, "first a'dvocated the use of liver in the control of anemia and have found if very successful. While I haw. not personally handled such cases, I am in a position to know what is going on. The use of liver has been just as effective in the treatment of anemia in Vancouver as elsewhere." Until recently, he added, it was thought that liver had to be fed raw, but it now is known to be just as effective when cooked. CURATIVE PROPERTIES. "The curative properties of liver are. apparently not adversely affected by cooking," he said. "Lamb or beef or other liver ordinarily cooked is effective, and is much easier for the patient to take than the raw product." Asked for an opinion on the accuracy of the claims of certain Harvard physicians and scientists to be the first to advocate, the use of liver for the control of anemia and to. be discoverers of a, liver extract containing the curative properties of the organ, Dr. McKechnie said that in both cases the. honor should go to Toronto. "The Connaught Laboratories were the first to feed liver*in any form for

the control of anemia, and I understand that Toronto scientists had discovered a means of extracting the curative properties and preparing them in powdered form before the same, was done at Harvard," he said. According to a Toronto despatch, the worst of bedridden cases are cured by a liver diet lasting one month. The price of liver in Toronto has increased with the demand from 20 cents to 65 cents per p'outtcL, .