SCIENTIFIC - MEDICINE, TUBERCULOSIS TREATMENT

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00809A000600140182-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 13, 2011
• Sequence Number: 182
• Publication Date: August 17, 1951
• Content Type: REPORT

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The following information is taken fry an official circular,
dated 15 October 1949, sent out by the Czechoslovak Ministry of
Health to the'Rational. Caswittees throughout Czbchoslovakia.
PAS (paraeminosalicylic acid) has been shown by successful experiments.
in other countries fn hw In nYfwr*ive manna of ti?e t.4ng -+. 4. laws of
tuberculosis.
This material is rare and there is a shortage of it in Czechoslovakia.
For this reason, it must be conserved until there is a sufficient supply of
domestically produced PAS. To accomplish this,. the Ministry of Health has
issued the following directives governing the use of PAS.
PAS may be used only in institutions]. therapy, and at present only in
the following institutions: the Tuberculosis Cliulc in Prague; the Pulmonary
and. Children's Department of the State Regional Hospital in Prague VIII, Su-
lovks; the Second Children's Clinic in Prague; the Clinic for Neck Ailments
in Prague, directed by Dr Precochtel; the Pulmonary Institute of the Wntrel
National. Insurance Society; the Masaryk State Pulmonary Institute in Jericko;
the State Pulmonary Institute in Paseka., in Moravia; the Masaryk State Chil-
dren 'a Pulmonary Im$titatta in Sipark; the State $pdieal_School Hospital in
Brno; the State Medical School aaspitel in Olomouc; the State Regional Hospital
in Gottvaldob; the State Regional Hospital in Opava; and the State Pulmonary
Institute of Zdenek.mejedly in Trebotov (the Internwtional Student Sanatorium).
There institutes are at the same time centers for streptomycin therapy,
and. were chosen to work with PIS since it has been found that PAS is more
effective, in combination with streptomycin.
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The miaiaint dose for an individual. patient is considered to be 1,OOC
tablets at 0.3 arm per tablet over a period of 3 efmontne, Tresi;,ment may not
be begun until the a;sstlabillty oi' thin q*atity has been assured.
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