SOVIET MEDICAL CLAIMS

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• Publication Date: November 11, 1998
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I. T ~ 'NT Or DISEASES
Pernicious Anemia: Twelve types of the Vitamin B group are known. Vitamin B-12
"helps in the formation of blood matter ~tnd is of great value in fighting pernicious
anemia," which can be ''cured within two to three weeks with the aid of Vitamin B-12
solution," (Professor Bukin, head 'of the Vitamin Laboratory of ~che Biochemical
Institute of the Academy o? Science's of the USSR.)
Hirsh ,Mood Pressure: Anew drug, I'eratizin, ie being used to reduce high blood
pressure. It may be given ~ rally or by infections.
Duodenal Ulcers: "A prolonged' application of diatheru~y gives excellent results
in the case of an ulcerous disease of the stomach and of the duodenum."
Hypertension: "The introduction of a bromal compound into the organism with the
help of direct current ie being effected." Experiments have shown that this method
has a salutazy effect on patients suffering from hypertension.
Tuberculosis: "The Tuberculosis Institute has trorked out a method of curing
tuberculosis by Soviet-produced streptomycin."
1'neTimonia, Malaria: I cidence'~, greatly reduced, it is claimed.
Cholera. Plaeue: Bothlare "things of the past."
anee : One of the pr~ncipal problems being worked on by the USSR Academy of
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II. NEY~ TkCHIVIQUES
Cardiac Traxisplantatio~: Soviet scientist Denikhov reports the Sllcceasful trans-
planting of a second heart into the thorax of a dog.
Ice in-Surr~ers: rrom Korea comes news of a new method "perfected by Soviet
medicine" of treating the wounds of',soldiera, Described as successful but "very com-
plicated," the method involves .the use of ice in surgical operations. No further
re9brtrant details are supplied. '
Lonrrevi~cy: Soviet biologist, Professor Olga Lepeshinskaya, has "prowdd by
numerous experiments" that one of the important methods for the rejuvenation of 'the
cell is to affect it by a aQlution of sodium bicarbonate which "invigorates the
metabolism, lessens muscular tiredness, and contributes to the general tone of man."
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This is a corollary to the .Professor's law that "`i`he state of the organism anal its
functioning totally depend on tha state of album~~e and their metabolism," acid that
"iu order to combat age, it is necessary to hinder the rogress of the thickening of
the cell envelope and prevent the growth o? (molecular?~ albumen."
penicillin in Small Doses: Dr. I. V. Neaeterov, head of the surgical branch of
the Yalta Hospital, hsa shown the effectiveness of a new method of using small, rather
than large doses of penicillin to prevent post-operative infections. The USSR
Ddinistry of Health has proposed that all health organs use the Nesterov method 'bn a
broad scale. "
Gormea Transplants: A Korean eye specialist at Tientsin Medical Colle a "has
restored sight to countless blind persons" since 1945, by using (Shilatov's~!
technique of transplanting corneas. i
III. NEW PROCIiSSES AND INVENTIONS
~,ew Drums: Anew non-habit-forming painkiller, Fenagon (phon.) has been developed
by the Ord~onekidze All-?Union Scientific and Research Chemical and Pharmaceutical
Institute, and ie being used for kidney colic, internal ulcers, neuralgia, and poat-
operationally. The new drug can be taken as a powder or may be infected in solution.
Another new vegetable alkaloid, Feratizin, is used to reduce high blood~',pressure.
(See Section I.)
A Special Sponge for Brain Operations makes possible the stopping of bleeding in
surgical operations of the brain.
Elastic Grafts of Skin contribute ?to the swift recovery of the patient after the
healing of the nerves, according to the Leningrad Research Institute for Neurosurgery.
Eulmotora: Artificial breathing apparatus, "considerably superior to foreign
types," have been constructed.
,~ewin~ Nfachine A surgical sewing machine has been developed by 5oviet~medicine,
it is reported.
Aminoacids: Methods for synthesizing t~renty aminoacids have been worked out by
the Institute of Biological and Medical Chemistry. ',
Molecular Distillation: A centrifuge designed by the Moscow Biochemistry
Institute purifies various oils through. "molecular distillation." Vitamin A,extracted
in this way is 100 to 150 times more concentrated than chemically extracted Vitamin A.
N. PUBLIC AND INDUSTRIAL H1sAT.TH
Health and Safety in the Mines: i
Ultraviolet treatment chambers have been set up where miners and subwayllcon-
etruction workers are ?treated at the end of the day. Donbas miners are not only given
the sunlamp treatments but "are made to inhale menthol flames to clear their lungs,"
as well.
The government has installed 750 ventillators in the mines, some of which can ex-
tract ten thousand cubic meters of air per minute.
Special sprinklers have been installed on coal-hewing machines and combines to
protect the miners with water screens.
fir Conditioning:
The air of Moscow has become "sweater and cleaner" due to the introduction of
soot and gas collectors in factory chimneys. Such devices are being fitted in all new
enterprises and workshops, reports Comrade Lipkin, Chairman of the State Sanitary
Inspection Office.
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~fedicate~ Mud
Numerous bulletins describe the spa facilities available to the rrorkera where
medicinal springs and mud baths are among the health services offered,
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Epidemology, Tuberculosis, and Neurosurgery.
V. CLAZL69 RESEARCH, ETC. ',
Penicillin was discovered by Professor (Yermoliev?) "and proved a;valuable
medicine !during the war."
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Professor (Krasilniloov?) has shown that antibodies exist in sea andifresh water,
since typhoid and dieaentery bacilli eventually die in salt water. The piro?esaor,
"folloxing Michurin~s theories," has also shown that antibiotic-reaistant''~straine of
bacteria',caa be bred. He is now working on the problem o? destroying the', immunity
thus conferred on the resistant strains. ' ''
Medi~~sl Literature : ~ '
During the past five years, the Medical Literature Publishing House has issued
more than 2500 titles. ',
Soviet scientists are working on a 35-volume work: "Experience of 'Soviet Medicine
in the Great Patriotic War, 1941-1945." Twelve volumes have already appeared.
A six-volume encyclopedic dictionary of war medicine has been published.
B~se~ch Institutions:
Among the research establishments of the USSR Academy of Medical Sciences are the
Institutes of Physiology, Experimental Medicine, Experimental Biology, Microbiology,
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