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New Remedy for Diabetes Announced. Clinical tests of a new drug, myrtillin, expected t o be of considerable supplementary value in the treatment of diabetes, were announced t o the American Medical Association a t Washingon, recently, by Dr. Frederick M. Allen, director of the Physiatric Institute a t Morristown, N. J. Dr. Allen stated that while myrtillin was in no sense a substitute for insulin, i t d w s produce some of the beneficial effects of the better known drug without some of its greatest disadvantages. It can be taken by mouth instead of by injection and is entirely harmless, never producing an unduly low sugar content in the blood, but i t has the disadvantage of not having the prompt and powerful action of insulin and is not luccessful in all cases. . This new prepmatian was discovered by Dr. Richard R. Wagner, chief of the chemical department of the Physiatric Institute, who has also worked out the methods of producing it. The leaves of the blueberry or huckleberry are the source of myrtillin, but it can be obtained from the green leaves of certain varieties of plants, especially the myrtle -Science Service family, from which the name of the substance is taken. . Malaria Found Best Help for Paresis Victims. Killing off one disease through the action of another is a medical method of increasing interest. Treatment of the paralytic forms of syphilis with inoculations of malaria has had a three years' tryout a t the Mayo Clinic and was pronounced the most valuable method used thus far, by Dr. Paul A. O'Leary of Rochester, Minn., a t the meeting of the American Medical Association recently. Many more years of observation will be necessary, however, Dr. O'Leary emphasized, before it will be justifiable t o speak of the "cure of paresis." Results must now be estimated in terms of arrest or remission, he said, as shown by the ability of patients to resume their former mode of living. The malaria treatment is not without risk as the mortality of five per cent recorded by Dr. O ' k a r y shows, hut he believes that this rate compares favorably with that of any untreated group, observed for the same length of time. The greatest improvement was noted where the malaria was introduced early in the course of the paresis but striking results were cited by the Rochester specialist in cases of four years' standing.-Science Service
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