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PAGE SIX
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THE ABILENE REPORTER-NEWS
Wednesday Evening, June 26, 1940 % .
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Vitamin K Gives New Chance to Doomed Babies
By MORGAN M BEATTY
AP Feature Service Writer
BALTIMORE Md.—The myste-
rious food element and blood boost-
er. Vitamin K is emerging from a
rigorous year-long test in Johns
Hopkins university as a potential
life saver for 30,000 to 80,000 Ameri-
can babies annually
Up to now these infants were
stillborn or died in the first pre-
carious week of life before their lit- |
tle systems began to absorb the
anti-bleeding vitamin from food
Only 1-15.-
000th of an ounce
I of Vitamin K is
required to save
a life — a mere
speck given to a.
prospective moth-
er a few hours
before her child
is born
So impressed
is Dr Nicholson
J. Eastman, Johns
Hopkins obstetri-
cian-in - chief, by
M Brattytentative results
Moran Vitamin K
that he plans a longer series of
fetal cases in the Vitamin K group:
... in the control group non-K),
hemorrhage into one or another or-
gan was demonstrable in nine of
the It autopsies, or in 56 per-
cent. . . ."
Dr. Hellman cautions against ex-
pecting results in severe hemor-
rhages.
pling error. It would be wiser to as-ung fish meal and alfalfa which
sume a_Vitamin K life-saving po-stopped spontaneous hemorrhages in
tentlal of a little less than half, say diet deficient animals
30,009 lives, at least until we have
several thousand cases in our series
and other institutions have concur-
red."
For himself, Dr. Hellman makes
no claims. The pioneers in Vita-
min K investigation all over the
world get the credit, he says. Hs
wouldn’t have been able to proceed
without the work of his associate.
Dr. L. B Shettles, who mastered
I don’t think the tentative results the delicate Smith prothrombin
ought to be overestimated," he says, test to measure the clotting power
"When applied to the census bureau of blood
figures, the results in these 776 cases K DISCOVERED IN 1929
would indicate that five-eighths of
the 127,000 neonatal deaths annual-
ly—about 80,000— might be saved in
the future.
Drs. E. A Dolay and Y F. Fieser
of St. Louis university and Harvard,
first announced the chemical for-
mula for pure Vitamin K almost
simultaneously last summer, work-
ing independently of each other.
But it was costly to make
Later, last year. Dr. Stefen Ans-
bacher experimented with the little
known but cheep chemical discover-
See VITAMIN K, Pe. 12, Col. t
"But all babies are not born un-
der hospital conditions, and there is
an infinitesimal chance of a sam-
Vitamin K was discovered by Dr
Henrik Dam in the University of
Copenhagen in 1929. In 1935-36, Dr.
H. J. Almquist of the University of
California and Dr. Dam first ex-
tracted small quantities of what
seemed to be Vitamin K from rot-
B U RNt
To quickly allay painful
throbbing of small burn.
% and ease parched skin,
5 apply at coca, soothing
ESINOL
cases than the 776 now on rec-
ord Surprised, too, is Dr. L M
Hellman, young instructor in ob-
stetrics even though he demon- .
strated a year ago that Vitamin
K was a cure for rare hemor-
rhagic disease of the newborn
THE CEMENT VITAMIN
Vitamin K is a blood coagula-
tor associated with the precious
egg - white - like material in the
€0e I DURING THE DRUG STORE
JUNE health and beauty SALE
blood known as prothrombin—per-
haps a sort of natural cement
Without Vitamin K there’s no
prothrombin, and without proth-
DEATHS ENEMIES Dr L.
B Shettles (left) and Dr L
M Hellman of Johns Hopkins
University, measuring the pro-
vent the tendency to hemorrhage
in the offspring. This he proved in
a limited series of cases
Week after week the supervisor
stood at the entrance of the Hop-
kins maternity ward arbitrarily
thrombin level of blood in their
test of Vitamin K as a life sav-
er for thousands of babies.
384 with Vitamin K 392 without,
had been studied, the deaths autop-1
sied and the results tabulated. The
ratio of deaths at that time was
almost three to one three non-K
babies to every one K baby.
STEVE. THE VITAMIN K
BABY: Two days after birth
Steve had less than a 50-50
chance to live, but 1-15,000th of
Reporting to the gynecological
society, Dr. Eastman says:
"The stillbirth an neonatal (first
week of life) mortality figures are
as follows: Control series (non-K
an ounce of Vitamin K changed
all that Steves six weeks old
in this picture, cute and heal-
thy.
group) 16 deaths, or 4.1 percent
mortality; Vitamin K series, 6
deaths or IS percent mortality....
Hemorrhage was demonstrable
in autopsy in but one of the six
SCORES OF BIG VALUES- THESE ARE ONLY A FEW
mes.mote3a85.nng0.
s CONVENIENT LOCATIONS
Filling Prescriptions is the Moa Important Pert of Our Busines
giving every other mother 1-15.000th
of an ounce of a synthetic K con-
rombin, and without prothrombin centrate in globules of corn oil
mammals bleed spontaneously, about as big as * pea Two made
eventually die. a dose..
More than 127.000 babies do die TME DOCTOR’S REPORT
annually in the United States be- _UP to May 1. 1940, two big groups,
fore the first week of life has run
its course Most of these deaths
are accompanied by hemorrhage.
Dr Eastman has just reported the
Vitamin K findings to the Ameri-
can Gynecological society at its an-
nual meeting at the Seignory Club
near Lucerne. Que
He says the work began in Janu-
ary, 1939 Some 150 scientists, in-
cluding those at Johns Hopkins had
proved.
1. Small amounts of Vitamin K
are harmless to humans; only small
‘amounts are required.
2. The blood of the average in-
fant at birth is about 75 percent
deficient in prothrombin, but most
babies begin absorbing and utilising
K within a few days.
X But if an infant does not pick
up K normally, the deficiency can
be remedies by administering K.
At the start Dr Hellman set out
to find whether Vitamin K. ad-
ministered to a mother BEFORE
the birth of her child would pre-
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