SOVIET EXPERIMENTS WITH PENICILLIN

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R009700390006-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 31, 2001
• Sequence Number: 6
• Publication Date: February 11, 1952
• Content Type: REPORT

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siderably below the level of war necessity. It is for this reason that
Soviet scientists have been working on methods which whuld allow maximum
economy in the use of penicillin and streptomycin.
Since 1948 in three hospitals in the USSR large experiments have been made
in the use of diluted penicillin. The forced labor camp dispensaries in
Northern European Russia received orders to send a specified number of
prisoners with definite illnesses to these three hospitals. Persons
selected by the camp doctors were given a few days' rest to be put in lihape
and then were disptiched to Vologda, Leningrad;and Moscow, for "experimental
treatment."
2. Penicillin production in the USSR and in the satellite states is con-
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obtained the following information from a former
me ical student who was sentenced to four years.':forced labor. The
student then volunteered for experimental treatment'*nd was taken from the
Vorkuta coal mines"to the Vologda Central Hospital, He added that the methods
of recuperation and regeneration of using (sic) penicillin, streptomycin, etc.,
are also being keenly investigated at these hospitals. He was lucky enough
to betreated with an already "successful" solvent and was released after
the cure bo gfrpra the hospitE& and from his penal servitude because his
term of uxshierit had expired:-in the meantime.
4. The experiments were concerned with the evaluation of the effectiveness of
penicillin when diluted with various solvents priot to injection. In the
initial stages several patients died, but the problem had apparently been
solved by the end of 1950.
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The penicillin doses used internally were much. smaller as the solvent (a
colorless liquid in ampoules bearing the name Campolon on the box labels)
apparently has the property of increasing the influence of the penicillin
diluted in it and of slowing down its absorption (by body tissues). Thus,
not only could the penicillin be econor.ized but the inj ctions could he given
much less frequently than with normal penicillin - twine in 24 hours.
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