Pernicious anemia treatment

Abstracts. Internal illnesses. Treatment of pernicious anemia. Wilkinson (Brit. Med. Journ., No. 3605), proceeding from the theory that anemia perniciosa is the result of some defect in the gastric juice of the patient, unable to produce the necessary substances from food proteins, treated a. p .: 1) normal gastric juice, 2) raw and 3) dried pig stomach. A. came to a trace, conclusions: 1) normal gastric juice gives an improvement in the general condition and blood picture more pronounced than with hepatic therapy; 2) hydrochloric acid and pepsin did not give any effect in the hematological state of the patient; 3) the mucous membrane and the muscular layer of the pig's stomach, both are active in the treatment of a; R.; 4) the dried preparations of these both parts give the same results: 5) the results obtained from this gastric therapy are better than those from the hepatic therapy; 6) so. peptic enzyme, which contains the gastric mucosa and does not contain pepticenzyme, the muscular layer of the stomach, as well as the liver and kidneys, are a source of active hematopoietic substance.