Evening star., 1949-04-08
Easing Of Effect
OF Measles,
Seen
Injections Will Moke
Attocks Less Severe,
Anesshesiolooists Told

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A brave neS ~os I'd IN ~hssh
children all sYasd nleAAies ana
rnumpS, q. have iight enough al
tacks 10 laugh os ~As forecast
today oy Harvard scirEtaAt
Dy Lsws X Diamond . pc<sl-
Atgteian, meatlog4ed thls paSS1etl-
lily IN a Eapef ea blood which hs
gave ectefr The American Soctetv
Of AneStheSiologists at The Hotel
StAlier
A passive immunity 10 rneAales
and muaps Is possible D. Da-
mofd said. ey in)ccg&on os gamma
glonin, one O! the divisions O. tire
blood. when exposure has ec-
CURED While The immunity IA not
absolute. he said II has been
found that when Tire diseases oe
eurred they we're ~ llght as 70 ee
hardly noticeable The gamma
Gloosn he pointed out. eontains
all the antlhodleS which prevent
second occurrence Of these DIS
eases. Gamma glohin from the
olood OF persons s'he have re-
Gently had the diseases IL espe-
eiaily effective.
Predicts Great Advances.
But 10 Dr. Diamond this good
news for children ot the future
was oniy one Of mAay thinga
that will result from uStng seps-
rate elements al The blood. He
said We are or the threshold Of
great advances in blood therapy
and compared It's immediate fu-
ture In Importance With what has
been done with The Sulia druss
in the last decade
Use Of fihrinogen, the elrment
OF the blood which contains most
Of the clottlng agents. will pro-
tect the lives o! hemonniies. the
hereditary "bleefers who Tn
cluoed the Bourbon rulers Of
Spain, Or Diamond said In
iections OF nnrinogen have maos
possible surgical operations ea
hemophiles which would have
been fatal without II, he reported.
Dividing the blood, DIR Diamond
said. makes possible as many as
l3s beneficial applications frow
units from 20 donors. whereas
using whole blood limits such ap-
plicatlons 10 20 He called ua~
OF whole blood shotgun therapy
He said that many unfortunate
reactions 10 transfusions could hs
avoided by giving only the sls-
ment OF blood needed
Told Of New Anesthetle.
About $50 anesthesiologists at
yesterdays meeting we're told Of Q
new spinal Anesthetie. which al
lows patients to retain control of
their body muscles and less while
unable 10 feel pain.
In a discussion that followed. ths
drug value was questioned by an
other anesthesiologiSt. who had
made an earlier study OF II.
Use OF the drug. lucaine. In -
operations Mt the Presbyterian
Hospital, Philadelphia. was de-
scribed by DR.. Seymour Schotx.
chief anesthesioloTist At the hos
pital. Licaine Is not yet available
commercially. but has been dts
tributed by It's manufacturer IA
several institutions for clinical
study.
DR. Schotx stressed that the
Presbyterian study VAS too smali
for a complete evAluAtion. but
that the drug appeared 10 have
less effect than other agents In
dropping blood pressure major
concern during operations. A. the
same time. It's effects last about
90 minutes--twice "a long a. ths
commonly used procalns, he
added.
Use In Childbirth Suggested.
Or. Schotx suggested the drug
might be of value in childbirth.
He added that It's rninimai effect
on the motor system also might
be valuable in some types Of sur
gerry because IL does not endanger
respiration.
But neither OF these two possi-
biltties has been studied ct Pres
bytertan Hospital. DR.. Sehosz aaid.
In a discussion that followed.
DR.. John Adriani Of Charity Hos-
pital, New Orleans. said USE Of tls
drug In q study of ohststrical eanes
had produced nausea In the pa
tients.
DR.. Adriani. who had made Q
previous study OF lucalns. said he
did not think II offers us any
thing procaine doea not In short
operative cases. For the time be-
ing" he added. this Ia just an
other Of those drugs interesting 10
use and know something about