DEVELOP NEW MEDICAL PREPARATIONS, PRODUCTION METHODS

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• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00809A000700050238-1
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• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 23, 2011
• Sequence Number: 238
• Publication Date: March 18, 1952
• Content Type: REPORT

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DEVELOP NEW MEDICAL PREPARATIONS PRODUCTION METHODS
CHIlIIO3NT PLANT 30LE PRODUCER OF SANTONIN -- Atma-Ata, Kazakhstanskays Pravda,
15 Jun 51
The Chimkent Pharmaceutical Chemical Plant imeni F. E. Dzerzhinskiy is
the only enterprise in the country which produces santonin, a valuable medi-
cal preparation derived Prom wild wormwood.
OUTPUT OF PASK INCREASES __ Riga, Sovetskaya Latviya, 26 Jun 51
The Riga Pharmaceutical Plant completed its half-year program 10 days
early., Its 6-month plan for output of its basic type of production, the
medical preparation PASK, xas exceeded by 12.6 percent.
During the firct 5 months of 1951, the plant accumulated more than
2 million rubles of above-plan profits; tens of thousands of rubles' xorth
oP rax and other materials rare saved. The production coat oY output was
significantly loxered. Labor productivity is increasing regularly.
TO HOLD CONFERENCE ON NEH DC'^ -- Riga, Sovetskaya Latviya, 1 Jul 51
On 2 or 3 July, a conference rill be held at the Acade~y of Sciences
Latvian SSR on the results of the use of the nex medical preparation,
"Puratsilin", (furacylin) developed several years ago. Its pharmacological,
microbiological, and other properties have been stuaied in detail by the
scientific workers oP the Academy of Sciences Latvian SSR.
Later Puratsilin underwent clinical. testing in surgery and other Pielde
of medicine. Valuable properties of the preparation were revealed which
have beneficial effects on ell suppurative infections. The Riga Medical
Institute and a large number oP medical institutions in Latvian SSR, as xell
as in Moscow and Leningrad, have engaged in research on the clinical use oP
Puratsilin.
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DEVELOP 6YNTHETIC VITADIIN C -- tdoscow, Pionerskaya Pravda, 3 Jul 51
Soviet scientists and engineers hs.ve worked out a method of producing
ascorbic acid chemically. Pure Vitamin C is obtained by reacting glucose
xith acetone, chloroform, and aulfaric acid. The conversion of glucose is
done in special apparatus of stainless steel, aluminum, and porcelain.
Ascorbic acid ie used for other purposes besides preventing and curing
diseases. When added to fats, it helps to preserve their quality over a
long period of time,
A Stalin Prize xas awarded to G. N. Lebedev, chief of the Main Adminis-
tration of the Vitamin Industry, who directed the work, and to other Soviet
scien~iats and engineers for the 3ndustr'vl synthesis of ascorbic acid.
SHIPS VITAMINS TO SATELLITES -- Kishinev, 5~vetskaya Moldaviya, 22 Aug 51
The Moscow First Vitamin Plan is producing Vitamin D2, which is widely
used in agriculture for productive livestock raising and aviculture. The
plant recently shipped large consignments of its output to the People's
Democracies.
DEVELOP NEW AN'!'IBIOTIC -- Duesseldorf, Chemische Industrie, Sep 51
Synthomycin, a newly developed antibiotic, is being produced in the
USSk as a remedy for dysentery, typhoid, and pneumonia.
The antibiotic is generally obtained from a type of ray fungus; hoxever,
a synthetic process for producing the drug is said to have bees found.
TREAT WCUNDS WITH BACTERICIDAL PAPER -- Minsk, Sovetskaya Belorussiys, 5 Oct 51
1. N. Kul'bin, Candidate of TechnicFl Sciences, director of the technolo-
gical laboratory of the Academy of Sciences Latvian SSR, has proposed the use
in medical practice of the so-called bactericidal paper he invented.
The paper is saturated with n special chemical solution which kills
bacteria on the surface oi' the affected parts of the skin, thus contributing
to the rapid healing of wounds. The paper is being used in the treatment of
alight wounds, fresh surface cuts, abrasions, and superficial burns.
In a special order, Smirnov, Minister of Realth USSR directed extensive
use of the bactericidal paper in dispensary practice. The Riga Pharmaceutical
Chemical Plant has mastered production of the paper.
NSW DRUG P.ELIEVES ADDISON'S DISEASE -- Tallin, Sovetskaya Estoniya; 21 Oct 51
The Moscow Endocrine Preparations Plant of the ifinistry of Meat and Dairy
Industry USSR has mastered the nroduction of a sew medical preparation,
Kortin, in ampules.
Kortin was developed by a group of scientific associates of the All-
Union Institute of Experimental Endocrinology under the leadership of N. A.
9hereshevekiy. It is a dependable remedy in the treatment of Addison's
disease, and is being used successfully also during ~onvalescen;e after
serious infectious diseases.
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Plant workers have worked out and assembled a special apparatus whereby
Korth can be put out in quantities which satisfy the requirements of the
country's medical institutions.
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