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...Rudolf Degkwitz, a German who spent part of the war in concentration camps, developed a new method...
...foreign delegates had come to the meeting mostly to catch up on recent U.S. advances in children's medicine. But the most original piece of scientific work reported to the meeting was by a German, Dr. Rudolf Degkwitz, who had spent part of the war in concentration camps...
...Aimed Injection." Degkwitz's invention: a new method of shooting an "aimed injection" of a healing drug at a given organ of the body. His method (which he did not make entirely clear to U.S. doctors) involves varying the molecular pattern of the drug. Dr. Degkwitz first crystallizes the drug in a shape and size that fits into the organ at which it is aimed. When the drug is in the form of needle-shaped crystals, for example, the crystals after injection into a vein go straight to the lungs. Round crystals of various sizes, says Degkwitz...
...Degkwitz reported that he had already tried his injection method against tuberculosis, with promising results. Using two aniline dyes that seem to be lethal to tuberculosis bacilli, he gave daily injections to T.B.-infected guinea pigs. In six weeks, he said, he had cured 98% of them...
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