The Progress
Of Medicine
(First of a Series)
Prepared by Science Digest
POISON FIGHTERS FROM
BLOOD CELLS
Blood donors may soon be sup
plying physicians with a new ar
ray of medical weapons as a re
sult of experiments with red blood
corpuscles, by-product of life
saving plasma, states Dr. Robert
D. Barnard, of Ohio State Uni
versity’s Department of Medicine
and the Army Medical Corps, in
the “Journal of the American
Pharmaceutical Association.”
Some types of systemic poison
ing and virus infections involving
the blood may yield to stroma gel,
the creamy white paste that re
mains after the red pigment has
been removed from the microscop
ic. disk-shaped blood cells.
From the red pigment itself
eight other possible poison fight
called ferrihemoglobin, undergoes
ers can be prepared. One of these,
chemical reactions which suggest
its use as an antidote for such poi
sons as cyanides and fluorides.
The present treatment of cyanide
poisoning depends on a similar
chemical reaction occurring in the
blood, but in so doing the victim’s
own life-sustaining red cells are
consumed.
Hope for an improved treatment
of a particular type of anemia is
offered by another blood pigment
derivative; it has already been
recommended for that purpose by
other physicians as a result of ex
periments.
By splititng the red pigment,
substances emerge which enhance
tiie medicinal effect of such drugs
as hormones and prolong the ac
tion of one type of insulin treat
ment for diabetics.
Combining some of these deriv
atives with certain metals opens a
new vista for treatment of dis
eases in which such metals have
proved beneficial.
Other combinations with iron
or vitamin B components may
prove useful in treating nutrition
al deficiency diseases by injec
tions.
PLAN TO BLITZ
TSETSE FLY
A full-scale blitz is being pre
pared against one of man and
beast’s most deadly enemies in
Africa—the tsetse fly—in the form
of the powerful insecticide known
as DDT, reports the New York
Times.
South African scientists believe
that DDT may provide an answer
to the menace which carries na
gana, a deadly blood infection, to
cattle and game, and sleeping
sickness to human beings.
They are going to experiment
first in South Africa in a game
reserve in Zululand, where naga-!
na has periodically wiped out'
large herds of game. The insecti-'
cide will be sprayed from the air
on the bush country.
DDT is said to have a powerful!
action on the tsetse fly’s nervous
system, which almost always re
| suits in death. But it is still an
open question whether DDT will
be effective in thick bush because
the fly is usually found in the
shade of heavy foliage.
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