The Progress
Of Medicine
Prepared by Science Digest
(Third of a Series)
GIVE HEART DISEASE
TO APES
The riddle of what causes one
kind of heart disease, may be on
the way to solution as the result
of a discovery made at the AAF
Regional and Convalescent Hos
pital at Miami Beach by Lt. Col.
F. C. Helwig and Capt. E. C. H.
Schmidt of the Army Medical
Corps.
They have isolated a substance
capable of causing in apes, mice,
rabbits and guinea pigs a disease
with heart damage “strikingly
similar” to that of the acute myo
carditis of unknown origin which
sometimes attacks human beings.
The substance, possibly a virus,
was obtained from the chest fluid
and spleen of a chimpanzee that
died suddenly at the Anthropoid
Ape Foundation. A gibbon at the
same foundation had died sudden
ly six weeks previously with al
most identical symptoms and the
same signs of heart damage.
RECOVERED FROM
"FATAL" BURNS
Breaking most if not all records
for recovery from extensive burns
is a case reported by Lt. Comdr.
John R. Johnson, of the Navy's
Medical Corps, in “Naval Medical
Bulletin.”
The 19-year old Marine had. 83
percent of his body burned in a
gasoline explosion. Up to the pres
ent war, first degree burns in
volving two-thirds of the body
surface and second degree burns
in adults involving one-third of
the body surface were generally
fatal. Within three months after
the injury, Lt. Comdr. Johnson’s
patient had not only recovered
but returned to dut.y.
When this young man was
brought to the hospital four hours
after the explosion, he had second j
and third degree burns over all of.
his body except the part of his'
head covered by thick hair, the
short edges of which had been
burned; his feet and ankles which
were covered by field shoes; and
the part of his body which was
“clothed in abbreviated shorts.”
inhaled flame had burned his
lungs.
He was excited and suffering
from shock. He developed dropsy,
thickening of the blood merging
into a blood infection and pro- j
gressive anemia. The veins of
both legs were inflamed and
blocked by clots, and a clot in a
lung artery was killing lung tis
sue.
To save him required a wide
range of weapons from the Navy’s
anti-burn armory: blood plasma
and albumin, sulfa drugs, penicil
lin, nasal tube feeding, blood
transfusion, oxygen for the in
jured lung, vaseline-paraffin
dressings on the arms and legs,
vaseline-paraffin spray over the
trunk, sulfathiazole ointment on
the face, and skin grafts.
The skin grafting had to be de
layed a week or two beyond the
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STATE COLLEGE, Pa.—i/P)—A
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game.”
best time for this procedure, until
enough burned areas had healed
to make skin available for graft
ing onto other areas.
The patient was allowed out of
bed the 46th day after injury and
evacuated to the rear as a walking
patient with his burns completely
healed on the 62nd day. He re
turned to duty one month later.
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Jacklyn H. Lucas. USMCR. 17.
is the younfest man in the Navy.
Marine Corps or Coast Guard to
receive the medal of honor dur-*
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