Word: compounders
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Snake Venom. From a snake farm near Sāo Paulo, Brazil came Professor Maocyr E. Alvaro to tell of the effects of snake venom on eyes. Snake venom is a highly complex compound of proteins and enzymes which vary in quality and proportion with the species of snake. Two constituents of venom have already been isolated; one is a specific nerve poison which makes an excellent painkiller when diluted; the other is an enzyme which causes coagulation of the blood. There is a third principle not yet isolated, said Professor Alvaro, which affects only the eyes. Patients treated...
...doctors as a poor surgical or obstetrical risk. No satisfactory chemical is known which will shorten the coagulation time of bleeders, but in last week's Science Dr. Aaron Lee Lichtman and Physiologist William Harold Chambers of Cornell University Medical College announced the discovery of a new compound which greatly reduces the clotting period in animals...
...urea, they anesthetized him, connected an artery and vein to a vein and artery of a healthy, anesthetized dog. The small connecting pipes were attached to a specially designed pump which exchanged more than six quarts of blood an hour in each direction. A solution of heparin (a phosphorus compound found in the liver) was introduced into the blood to prevent coagulation. No change was made in the blood volume of either animal, but the two blood streams were thoroughly mixed until the urea of the nephrectomized (kidney-less) dog was distributed fairly evenly throughout the blood of both animals...
Last week at a meeting of the Atlantic County Medical Society, 60-year-old Dr. Samuel Stern of Atlantic City announced that he had successfully used a new drug, Arthranol, for the treatment of arthritis. Arthranol is a highly complex salt made from a nitrogen compound, phosphorus and iodine. Since most doctors believe that a focus of bacterial infection is responsible for arthritis they have leaned toward vaccine treatment. Dr. Stern has long held that the most important beneficial elements in a vaccine are the aminoacids produced by bacteria. In hunting for a more potent form of aminoacid...
...momentum often produce breaks that are too much for veterinary skill or owner's purse. But veterinary surgeons can heal many a horse's broken leg. One method: Cincinnati dentist, Dr. Peter Wehner, uses a cast made of dental stone, says he can mend even a compound fracture. Though Dr. Wehner has successfully treated four race horces, none of his patients has raced again...