The Progress !
Of Medicine j
Prepared by Science Digest
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"BLUEBLOOD"—NEW
PLASMA SUBSTITUTE
The Soviet Tass Agency an
nounces that a Prof. Modestov of
the Molotov Special Institute has
' evolved a new preparation, termed
blueblood, for use as a blood sub
stitute against shock, it is reported
in “PM.” The preparation is said
to have “greater effectiveness”
than other solutions used for sim
ilar purposes.
With mineral water as a base,
blueblood’s chemical composition
closely resembles blood plasma,
says the Tass dispatch.
It also asserts that animals in
jected with the solution recovered
from states of shock within two
minutes, and that the preparation
can be kept in ampule form for
years and is *‘500 times cheaper
than blood citrates.”
Tass declared that blueblood
could substitute for 75 per cent of
the total volume of blood in the
body.
NEW DRUG BEATS
TIME FOR HEART
The discovery of a possible sub
stitute for a heart disease medi
cine now very scarce because of
the war is announced by five Ar
gentine scientists in a recent issue
of “Science," reports Jane Staf
ford of “Science Service.” The
scientists are Dr. Venancio Deu
lofeu. Dr. Rafael Labriola, Dr.
Alberto Taquini, all of the Uni
versity of Buenos Aires, and Dr.
Oscar Orias and Dr. E. Moisset de
Espanes of the University of Cor-1
doba.
Fagarine is the name of the new '
drug controlling heart rhythm.
From tests on animals and human
patients, it seems likely to prove
effective in heart disease charac
terized by “flutters” and other
disturbances of the heart rhythm.
Quinidine has previously been
used in such forms of heart dis
ease. As its name suggests, quini
dine is related to quinine and like
quinine is obtained from the bark
of the cinchona tree. Since the Jap
invasion of Java, previously the
source of most of the world’s sup
ply of quinine, quinidine has also
been very scarce.
Fagarine comes from the leaves
and young twigs of Fagara coco, a
tree growing in central and north
ern Argentina.
Fagarine is more active in its
effect on the heart than quinidine
when given in the same doses, an
imal studies showed.
Six patients, two with auricular
flutter and four with rheumatic
heart disease and auricular fibril
lation, have been given fagarine
by Dr. Taquini, the heart special
ist of the five-man research team,
in all but one of these patients,
quinidine in the usual dose had
failed.
Within 30 minutes after a single
dose of fagarine, injected into the
muscles, normal heart rhythm
was restored in all six patients. In
one patient the flutter started up
again 28 days later. Another dose
of fagarine was again enough to
restore the normal rhythm.
The Daily Toll Of Fire
AP Newsfeaturet
EVERY day fire attacks 1,000 homes in the United States.
130 stores, 7 churches, 3 hospitals, 100 factories and 7
schools; 28 people die. The National Fire Protection Assn,
says fire resistant roofs and adequate wiring, chimneys and
heating plant# o-event half *he#e tires.
KAMIKAZE KAPUT
By DON MORGAN
Coast Guard Combat Correspondent
Aboard a Coast Guard-manned
LST at Okinawa (Delayed*.—
There’s one dead Jap kamikaze
boy w'ho now must be doing some
tall explaining to the gatekeeper
of the Emperor’s hereafter.
It seems that a small Yank ship,
damaged beyond salvage during
the early phases of the Okinawa
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A TORQUE CONVERTER TRACTOR
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LONGER TRACTOR LIFE is assured by the cushion effect of convertor
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LONGER LIFE OF EQUIPMENT PULLED OR PUSHED is the natural
result of gradual acceleration and even application of power.
SMOOTHER OPERATION . . . LESS GEAR SHIFTING means greater
operator comfort, more work done. Tractor operates in each speed with
out stalling. An overload can pull it to a standstill . . . but engine can
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You will want to investigate these any many other advantages of this new-type
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invasion, was being towed to sea
where it was to serve as the bull's
eye for practicing Yank gun
crews. As the derelict moved sea
ward, a lone Jap suicide plane
loomed in the sky, went into a
dive and buried itself in the dis
abled vessel’s deserted decks.
According to eyewitnesses the
small ship slowly settled to hang
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because
OF FIRE
delicate
up “another brilliant Japanese
victory" while Yank gun crews,
deprived of their target, cursed
and covered up their guns.
Map-reading in the dark is pos
sible by the development of a
fluorescent plastic envelope thal
glow's under the “black light” ol
near-ultraviolet rays.
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