PA treatment in 1934

[helvella]

Looking for something else, I happened across this mention of a pre-WW2 product for pernicious anaemia. Thought I'd post as a matter of possible interest.

The Lancet The London Medical Exhibition October 20, 1934

THE LONDON MEDICAL EXHIBITION

Drugs and Pharmaceutical Preparations

ALLEN AND HANBURYS, LTD. (Bethnal Green, E.), had a wide range of preparations, notably Ferrodic, chocolate-flavoured ferrous phosphate containing 1.75 per cent. of iron (Fe) in the ferrous state ; Hepol, sterilised solution of liver extract for parenteral injection, each c.cm. containing the anti-anaemic principles of 20 g. of fresh liver ; Eugastrol, a desiccated gastric substance for pernicious anaemia ;and Sclerosol S.M., a solution of sodium morrhuate for varicose veins which keeps and does not congeal at ordinary temperatures.

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There is the following paragraph and some other discussion of PA in this document:

From 1929 Allen & Hanbury’s produced Eugastrol, a form of desiccated Hog stomach for treating pernicious anaemia. Between 1930 ­1931 there were also several published reports of success in the treatment of pernicious anaemia by liver extracts, as well as Hog’s stomach.

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[JanieL]

Oh my ... chocolate iron and injections of liver and hog tummy ... quite frightening! 😳Thank you Helvella 🙏 glad I’m living now... or actually maybe not in a Pandemic!!

[Nackapan]

Very interesting. My mum was born in 1929. Has b12 injections . Preferable I think

[VellBlue]

There's a lot to be grateful for.

[jointpain]

My gran had PA and had to eat raw liver back in the thirties. My mother has PA and was given B12 injections for a while, until her esteemed doctor decided she was cured 2 and a half years ago. She is now bedridden. I inject B12 every four days as my B12 serum at 176 wasn't low enough to be considered for injections by the doctors.

[Lucieb01 in reply to jointpain]

My mother had to take raw liver early 60,s

[FlipperTD]

Well done spotting this one! There's fascinating stuff in the history.