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Few people would regard the ele-were made the patients were given phant as an animal capable to pro-daily doses-and recovered! viding matter of a curative nature
to humans--but he doeB.
Cost £6 A Day
. So, too, do apes, lions, whales and The method of obtaining the life- creatures other than the purely giving substance is difficult and ex- domestic animals usually associated pensive, and it costs as much with the production of anti-toxins. £6 a day to treat such patients.
as
By means of this treatment nine In one hospital alone, the Man- chester Royal Infirmary, at least cases have been kept alive and well 100 lives are saved every year by -for three years.
means of treatment with material Such are some of the most strik- obtained in the way indicated. Aling examples of the work of the Victoria few years ago these lives would in- Research Department which
evitably have been lost.
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Until recently, people who con-them, maintain. tracted a strange ailment called Ad-
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dison's Disease had never been Other cures it has brought about known to recover. They might be are even more wonderful, because the true Nordic type, beloved of they affect a much larger number Hitler (even Platinum Blondes could of people.
not escape!), but steadily and re- There is, for instance, the cure of morselessly the disease laid its hand pernicious anaemia. upon them. Their skin grew dark- er and darker, until at last they were as black as negroes.
Doomed To Death
More than one thousand cases of pernicious anaemia have been in- vestigated at the Manchester In- firmary's Clinic, and not one has died from the disease in the whole of the ten-year period since the cure Until three years ago such a pat-was found (with the exception of ient was doomed to a speedy death. one or two patients who had not Low blood-pressure and other symp-carried out the instructions). toms set in, and in a few months The active substance capable of the disease had claimed another curing the disease has been found in the livers of a large number of animals, including horses, cattle, pigs, sheep, silver foxes, apes, ele-
Ivictim.
Then the Medical Research Coun- cil called upon research centres up: and down the country to try to find phants, lions, whales and fishes.
The cost of one bombing aero- ja cure. Selected .cases were sent
plane, capable of destroying a thou-- to these centres and for three years sand lives a day, would keep this de- the Medical Research Council made grants towards the cost of the in-partment for seven years. |vestigations.
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The Research Department at Man- chester Royal Infirmary was trium- phantly successful. The disease, it was found, was caused by functional defects in tiny glands which are Postage stamps of the new issue situated (in the case of human be-tions 1 cent, 5 cents, 2 dollars will be H.M. King George VI in the denomina- ings) just above the kidneys. Min-on sale as from 24th May. In order ute secretions which are normally to assist Dealers and others who re- [discharged into the bloodstream by quire considerable quantities of these these glands were not making their stamps for "first day covers", supplies in complete sheets of 120 stamps_only_ appearance. The next step was to will be available at the Chief Accoun- discover a substitute, and this was tant's Office, 1st Floor, Post Office found to be present in the corres- Monday 23rd May. The stamps will Building, from 4.30 p.m. to 5,00 p.m. orr [ponding glands in oxen. Extracts not be valid for postage until 24th May.
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