YUGOSLAV MEDICINAL PRODUCTION

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• Document Creation Date: November 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 24, 1999
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• Publication Date: April 18, 1949
• Content Type: REPORT

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COUNTRY Yugoslavia
DATE DISTR. iB AM 1949
SUBJECT Yugoslav Medicinal Production W1111 I L-0 ~-~ ? ? ?.
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a. Jugodent - Novi Sad, Fruskogorski Put No. 13-15, producing all kinds of
dental medicines and dental instruments, including installations for
dental laboratories
b. Pliva - Zagreb. Produces organ-synthetic substances. It is considered
the largest laboratory of its kind in Yugoslavia and by the end of the
Five Year Plan, it is to be tranformed into a combine. One of the primary
products is "girondai'1, produced from bituminous shale, and used as a
substitute fox, '"ichtbyol", a drug for skin disease:.. The lack of ample
semi-professional technicians is acutely felt in the factory.. A
pennant from the Central Committee of United Syndicates in 1940 disc
tinguished the factory in the field of medical industry, and it received
honorable mention from the General Directorate for leadership in
medical, production. The work in the factory is organized along the
system of workers brigades of which there are twenty-three.
c. Neva - Zagreb. This factory-produces cosmetics; its director is
Kresimir Topolscak.. The factory was renovated.in 1945. It is located
in the third district of Zagreb.
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1. Medicinal production in Yugoslavia is supervised by the General Directorate
for Medicinal Production, Belgrade, Icnez Mihajlova street, No. 42. Within
its jurisdiction are listed the following products:
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Serum
Vaccines
Organo-therapeutic and hormone preparations
Alkaloids
Pharmaceutical compounds
Inorganic salts
Reactional drugs
Diagnostic instruments
Dietetic compounds
Insecticides
Dental medicines, apparatus, instruments.
2. The Government factories which are engaged in the production of medicines
are as follows:
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d, Galenika a Belgrade
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e. Lek - Ljubljana
f. Alkaloid - Skopije. Products of the factory are opium and its alkaloids
(morphine, iiacetylmorphine, methyliuorphine and ethylmorphine),
3. The procurement and wholesale purchase of 'medicinal herbs is done through
the medium of District National Committees and special enterprises exist
through which this work is supervised. The following are some of the enter-
prises.
a, Bil.4ana - Zagreb, Hatzova street No. 14. The Biljana purchases and trades
in herbs used for medical purposes, The sales division is located in
Bozidara Adzije street No. 11, Zagreb.
b. Jugokamomila -- Novi Sad. This enterprise deals in the purchase and pro-
duction relative to herbs used in rr.'dicine, and of camomile in parti.
cula.r. In addition,, it organized in 19148 a leech farm at Klis near
Novi Sad. The leeches are exported, for the most part to France where
they are used for the production of "nirudin", a blood clotting agent,
2440,000 leeches were raised and ex orted in 1948.
c. The dominant varieties of medicinal herbs procured either for :industry
or for export will be listed under Jugolek0
loo Government establishments under management of the pharmaceutical department
of the Ministry of Public Health in Croatia are the following:
Medicine
instruments
Laboratories
optics
Dentistry
in Belgrade, on the other hand, is the Municipal Enterprise for Trade of
Medical Supplies, Boulevard of the, Red Army No. 8/3. It supplies the
population.and various enterprises with medicines, pharmaceuticals and
sanitary equipment. Compounds and hygenic and sanitary articles are pre-
pared in its laboratories,
6. The Jugolek in Belgrade, Icnez Mihajlova Z, is an establishment for imports
and exports of medical supplies, It exports the following:
a. Medicinal herbs and spices;
b. Crude oils derived from sage,. rosemary, lavender, juniper, laurel,
sunflower., et cetera;
c. Organic drugs derived from leeches, water fleas (puce d'eau), ant eggs,
et cetera; -
d. Opiwn and its alkaloids morphine salts): morphine, diacethylmorphine
(diarnoxvhine heroin), methylmorphine (codeine), ethylmorphine (dionine)
e. Pharmaceutical, products: serums, vaccines, antigens, ichthyol, bismuth
salts.
Jugolek imports raw materials, chemical and pharmaceutical products, medicinal
herbs, drugs and oils derived from herbs o
6. The Vetserum establishment produces veterinary vaccines, medicines and other
veterinary supplies. It constitutes a General Directorate institute and
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a. General Directorate in Belgrade, Francuska street No. 25/III.
Kalinovica
Novi Sad
Subotica
Zagreb Samoborska Cesta bra 20
ornu.n
urska Sobota
c. The Vetserum Institutes produce about one hundred different preparations
for combatting livestock diseases, including approximately 22 biological
preparations (i.e. six varieties of serums, nine different types of
vaccines, antitoxins (lymph) for smallpox of sheep, virus against the
hog plague and four diagnostic preparations.)
1) Serumsz against biackpox, anthrax, paralysis(swine), hypo-immunizers
against fowl plaguea(The hypo-immunizer serum was discovered by
Dr. Josip Spalatin, senior veterinary in the Kalinovica Institute,
According to the press, this serum was allegedly not known at the
time of publication in other countries. According to laboratory
and actual tests it cures 75 percent of diseased fowl.)
2) Vaccines: against blackpox, fowl plague (this vaccine is derived
from swine blood, whereas formerly it was derived from insect
plasma), typhoid, Para-typhoid, rabbies and swine plague. Dr. Marko
Zeljko, senior veterinary in the Federal Institute for Veterinary
Service at Zagreb, perfected the crystalviolet vaccine used in p]a ee
of the previously unsatisfactory simultaneous inoculation method to
offset hog plagues
3' Lymph for sheep smallpox: is produced in powder fof'na, supplanting
she earlier liquid state which was good for only seven days.
Virus against hog plague: is produced for simultaneous inoculation
of hogs, but its use has been decreased with the use of the crystal
!iolet vaccine which produces a five month immunization, whereas
_I mm inization by simultaneous inoculation lasted six months
5) Di,.gnostic preparationss A.skoliserum (?) for blackpox; tuberculin;
real,:i.c acid (?) for lameness in horses; and a group unification pre--
para?ion for tying up components in series blood tests for livestock
diseases called durin. (This last diagnostic preparation was the
discovery of Dr. Ivan Zarnic, research scientist of the Federal
Institute for Veterinary Service at Zagreb. He is also alleged to
have disccvered a sure diagnostic preparation for combatting chicken
y-phus or '? kite dysentry of chicks.)
6) Dr, Eugen Koadrnja, senior veterinary of the Vetserum Institute in
Murska, Sobota. 'discovered the "otsorbaz vaccine" for inoculation of
hogs against paralysis. Around 142,000 hogs had contracted this
di ease in 1947, and perished because of the IZ ck of an effective cure
of this disease. Dr. Kodrnja.gs vaccine gave successful results in
998 percent of the cases.
7. At the end of 1947 Tito's press published data on arrival of installations
and machin?ry in Yugoslavia for a penicillin factory. The installations were
received from Canada by way of JNNR&. At that time it was announced that the
installations would be installed temporarily in an already existing factory
for medical supplies, and that production of penicillin would begin in 191.80
The statement was also made that construction would commence on one of the
buildings of the first penicillin factory'in the Balkans,,
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