LIST DRUGS ON OPEN MARKET; BOOST PENICILLIN OUTPUT

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• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00809A000600350826-6
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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 23, 2011
• Sequence Number: 826
• Publication Date: November 1, 1950
• Content Type: REPORT

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CLASSIFICATION SECRET
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION FROM
FOREIGN DOCUMENTS OR RADIO BROADCASTS
SUBJECT Economic; Technological - Pharmaceutical
industry, medical instruments
HOW
PUBLISHED Daily newspapers and monthly periodical
WHERE
PUBLISHED' USSR; Berlin
DATE
PUBLISHED Apr - 8 Aug 1950
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LIST DRUGS ON OPEN MARKET;
BOOST PENICILLIN OUTPUT
ANNOUNCE UNRESTRICTED SALE OF DRUGS -- Baku Bakinskiy Rabochiy, 8 Aug 50
The following items are on sale at all drugstores and pharmacies of GAPU
Main Administration of the Pharmaceutical Industry 1]:
1. Cole's tablets
2. Blo ffic7pills with arsenic
3. Nitroglycerin in tubes
4. Acrichin tablets
5. Sponges
6. 0.25-percent aspirin tablets
7. Asiatic pills
8. Hydrogen peroxide
9. Lipocerebrin
10. Copper sulfate sticks
11. Sodium norsulfazol Ji]
12. Potassium manganate
13. Yatren tablets jZhiniofon powde7
14. Ferrohemocacao fn iron and hemo-cocoa mixtur7 in
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15. Laxative tea
16. N-sulfanilyl-acetamide
17. 20-percent tincture of iodine
18. 10-percent gastric drops
19. 30-percent ichthyol ointment
20. 15-percent zinc ointment
21. 50-percent alcoholic soap solution
22. Burov's liquid, 50-percent solution
23. Formalin
24. Male fern extract
25. Zinc-insulin
26. Boxed sylphton 5i27
27. Packets for new-born babies
28. Powder sprayers
29. Miscellaneous bandages
30. Chest packs
31. Corn plasters
32. Sanitary napkins
33? Milk nipples
34. Vitamin tea
35. Boric acid
36. Flypaper
37. Naphthalene ointment
38. Vaseline oil
39. Camomile
40. Marsh everlasting Z plan
41. Talcum
42. Sage
43. Whortleberry
44. Pectoral tea
45. Apricot oil
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46. Turpentine
47. Ground sulfur in packets
48. Refined soda (tea)
49. Ring cushions
50. Bed pans
51. Household medicine kits
52. Kolkhoz medicine kits
In case workers in the pharmaceutical stores of GAPU refuse to sell any of
the above-mentioned drugs, please telephone No 3-79-68 or 3-07-46. Azmedtorg
(Azerbaydzhan Medical Trade Office) GAPU. -- Advertisement
SELL VITAMINS, VITAMIN COMPOUNDS -- Sovetskaya Latviya, 29 Jul 50
The Ministry of the Food Industry USSR, Glavvitaminprom (Main Administration
of the Vitamin Industry) makes the following announcement:
Take vitamins and polyvitamins regularly. Vitamins improve the health, in-
crease resistance to infectious diseases, and increase efficiency. They are par-
ticularly necessary for those who live in the far north, sportsmen, persons en-
gaged in heavy physical or strenous mental work, pregnant women, and nursing
mothers, for normal growth and development of the child.
Buy vitamins and polyvitamins (containing A, B1, B2, 0, D, and PP) at all
drugstores, dietetics stores, and at department stores of Glavkonditer and Glav-
konserv (Main Administrations of the Confections Industry and of the Canning In-
dustry) of the Ministry of the Food Industry USSR. Dosage is indicated on the
labels. -- Advertisement
PRODUCTION OF PHARMACEUTICALS IN THE USSR -- Berlin Chemische Industrie, No 4,
Apr 50
In 1949, production of penicillin in the USSR is reported to have been 7
times that of the preceeding year. The penicillin factory in Riga, the Soviet
Union's largest plant for the production of antibiotics, is largely responsible
for this increase. There has also been a considerable rise in the output of
antimalarial drugs. Anopheles mosquitoes are now being exterminated chiefly by
spraying from aircraft. Emulsions of Paris green and compounds based on Dal-
matian camomile are used. for this purpose. Moreover, inhabitants of malaria-
infested areas are vaccinated with antimalarials.
There has also been an increase in the production of dimethylaminophenyldi-
methylpyrazolon.
HOLDS CONTEST FOR ARTIFICIAL AR14 DESIGNS -- Trud, 13 Jul 50
The Ministry of Social Security RSFSR announces an open competition for
the best designs for artificial arms. The purpose of the contest is to interest
a wide circle of inventors, innovators, and invalids using artificial arms:rA de-
veloping more highly perfected designs for artificial upper limbs, and to select
the most valuable suggestions: for their industrial application.
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SEU
For the prosthetic designs judged the best, the following prizes will be
awarded: one first prize of 15,000 rubles, two second prizes of 10,000 rubles
each, and four third prizes of 5,000 rubles each. In addition to these prizes,
monetary rewards may be given to those who submit valuable suggestions of a
scientific or inventive character.
The following data must be submitted:
1. A sample of the design which can serve for practical testing.
2. A detailed description of the design and its separate parts.
3. A general diagram of the prosthesis, with the parts labeled, and an in-
dication of the size, and method of attaching the artificial limb.
4+. Documents and records of clinical testing, if any.
Samples, diagrams, and other materials submitted must be'accompanied by'a
letter stating title of the suggestion, date, and name of the sender. The dead-
line is 1 October 1950.
All materials must be addressed to Moscow, Kolodeznyy Pereulok, d. No 3-6,
Glavprotez (Main Administration of Prosthetics). The envelope should be marked
"For the Contest." Information and detailed explanations on all questions re-
lating to the contest may be obtained at the same address. -- Advertisement
NEW INSTRUMENT ENABLES BLIND TO DISTINGUISH COLOR -- Sovetskaya Kirgiziya,
28 Jul 50
A physicist and a Leningrad electrician have developed an instrument for
orientation of the blind. It is a portable case containing a booster, with the
necessary tubes and batteries. The entire apparatus weighs 1,250 grams, and will
easily fit into a knapsack. Experimental models were produced in the workshops
of the Sense Organs Laboratory of the Leningrad University imeni Zhdanov.
Testing of the instrument has produced good results. Totally blind persons
hage been able to distinguish dark blue from black, orange from yellow, and red
from rose.
The instrument is now being improved in the laboratory of the Prosthetic
Plant of the Ministry of Social Security RSFSR.
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