Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-08-16

w the University OF Southern CALIFORNIA; Medical
School, predict who's going to get pernicious
anemia
Less than quarter a century ago such predic-
ton would have like handing out death warrant
No one who got the then fatal blood disease lived more
than five and many didn't live that long That
before the days of treatment with raw liver or concen-
traed liver extract
Now suffering from pernicous anema needs 10
it just diabetc patient must have shots
nsuln for the of his life the penicious anemia
victim must have shots Of liver
What DR. Askey hopes to do is 70 treat the prospective
victim before he the disease and him Of the ten
dency The doctor will the liver extract in his
that is sustaining life in those who have the
blood disease, but the may take only few
months while the treatment the disease gets
a foothod lasts forever.
Anema of this type seems TO in families, the Cali
foia doctor reports and his suggestion that anyone
who has relative suffering from perncious anema should
have a stomach analysis.
may seem strange since the disease o
blood system 49, due lack Of red corpusces The
is however that in perncous anena patients these
red cells formed in the OF the ribs backbone
and flat bones usual but that they "ripen
enough be turned do their job in the
blood stream. And that's where the stomach in
This digestive organ manufactures the substance that
makes red blood cells Stomachs Of who
have-or going TO Interpretations anemia don't
crete this celmaturing acid which usually is manufac-
tured from meat liver.
So when Dr. Askey finds relative of victim Of
penicous whose stomach doesn't secrete acid he
the liver treatment right away build up the acid
making apparatus before the blood is seriously affected
Persons afflicted with pencous anemia often lose al
sensation except nging, their hands and feet
This because of damage to the spinal cord and is such
unpleasant and Gripping symptoms that DR. Askeys pre-
ventive treatment would avoid
Fortunately prospective victims OF the disease and
for those who already have acquired it, it longer
eat the hapound of liver day that the
first treatment-discovered by Drs. Mno and Murphy
about 6 years ago They got the Nobel prize for their
discovery and the anema patients got complete lack Of
appetite from the liver.
Then doctors at the University Of Chicago Doctors
Kesser and Hanke, started trying make extract ont
people could by the spoonful instead
of by the pound.
They got along pretty well in their extract making
except the that they didn't have any other app
paratus in their laboratory big enough to handle than
ten pounds of liver at time and that would only make
enough extract for 20 patients for day
They called of the largest meat packing houses
in the country for help Three days later the Armour La
boatores delivered the extract from 100 pounds Of liver 90
the Chicago University doctors Then they increased the
patches to $50. 500 and finally 1000 pounds
Making extract from 1000 pounds of liver great
contribution to medicine and happiness
pa tents II meant that 900 such sufferers could take
tablespoonful medicine before their dinner and sit
down the table free TO eat anything they wanted
horrible disease had been brought under control
But things gone long way since then In the
United States and Europe investigators found that al
though person the extract Of half pound Of liver
day the medicine is taken by mouth he get
along with onetwentieth Of this IT is shot into his veins
muscles. That is much cheaper for the patient
SO the hrmour Laboratories and others, went TO work
on concentrated extract that into
stream every day but every few weeks Such
extracts have been the market for time, as every
penicious victim knows, and they enable him to
live like a normal human being
one of the patients treated with Armours
Liver Extract those University of Chicago days enjoyed
good health until few months when he died at 81
the pernicious anema which he kept check
with his treatments. but from pneumonia.
~ Another who was i'll in 1927 that he couldn't lift
his arm today is living normal life at the age of Il
Tho work DR. Asl1ey out in California but
other step in control of this disease which
deadly He will suggest the use of liver extract as tho
prevention" people who suspect they may be-
ancma victims will sec their doctors IN time