Word: innerfield
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Dates: during 1953-1953
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...enzymes-some of nature's complex chemicals which act as catalysts in countless physiological reactions. A star among the enzymes was expected to be trypsin, secreted by the pancreas. It was known to dissolve dead tissue around wounds, but a team of Manhattan researchers led by Dr. Irving Innerfield made far more dramatic claims...
...A.M.A. Journal has published a full-dress report by Innerfield & Co., and the argument is on. Other researchers using similar methods have tried to duplicate Dr. Innerfield's results and have failed utterly. In fact, say some, trypsin is too dangerous to be used at all in many of the cases for which Dr. Innerfield recommends...
...first, trypsin was used mainly in wound dressings or in local injections to clear infections in the chest. Lately, in purified form, it has been injected into veins and muscles. Dr. Innerfield dripped it into the veins of rabbits and dogs and concluded that it was safe; large doses, he said, had a powerful effect in preventing the formation of blood clots and dissolving those already formed. He has since given it to 428 patients with 52 different complaints and, he says, with good effect in nearly all: reduction of inflammation and swelling in arthritis, dissolution of blood clots...
Since the Innerfield article appeared in the A.M.A. Journal, doctors and laymen all over the U.S. have been bombarding Chicago's Armour Laboratories with requests for the purified form of trypsin. The laymen, and most doctors, will get none. Actually, more than 40 research groups have already worked with trypsin, and none has had as much success as Dr. Innerfield in dissolving clots. Some agree that it cuts down inflammation, but so do other things which are safer. The research will go on, and some day the contradictions will be resolved. Meanwhile, the dawn of the age of enzymes...