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...Oporto doctor gave Branca Maria an injection of Varidase, and waited to see what would happen. (The theory is that the enzymes help to dissolve clotted pus, enable an antibiotic such as streptomycin to go to work on the germs without interference.) Within 45 minutes, Branca Maria took some food and kept it down. It was too early for the doctor to tell whether the usually fatal disease was being arrested. But Santos flew back to Lisbon, picked up a dozen more vials of Varidase to keep up the treatments. Said he: "God bless radio and aviation. Whatever happens, this...
...internal diseases. One is an extract from the pancreas, called trypsin, reported by Drs. Howard Reiser, Richard Patton and L. C. Roettig of Ohio State University. Trypsin, an enzyme often found in the excretions of maggots, has already proved itself valuable in cleaning out dead cells and pus in the chests of tuberculous patients (TIME, Nov. 6). "Its use in war wounds," said the Ohio doctors last week after a year of experimentation, "would seem to be of great value...
...four Johns Hopkins doctors in the current A.M.A. Journal. In tests on 85 patients with ailments varying from bedsores to osteomyelitis, the Johns Hopkins doctors found that streptokinase worked effectively to dissolve the tough fibrous matter in blood clots, while streptodornase did its work on dead cells and pus. In no case did either chemical harm the living cells...
...most serious complications met in treating tuberculosis is what the doctors call empyema, i.e., the cavity between a lung and the chest wall fills with pus. Not long ago empyema was one of the commonest complications; nowadays, thanks to streptomycin and skillful surgery, it afflicts fewer than one-tenth of tuberculosis patients. But it is still true that nearly half of those it attacks do not recover...
Injected into the infected chest cavity of six patients, trypsin produced good results in four by dissolving the mass of pus and sterilizing the cavity. In two cases where trypsin failed, the empyema was of long standing and the cavity walls had become rigid. Roettig and Reiser recommended further trial for the promising technique...