7% (900 nN. Y.1 hysician Develops Drug to Dissolve Clots AMA/’s policy-making house of delegates adopted a résolution which does not oppose use of MIAMI BEACH, June 16— federal government funds to A clot forms in the coronary pay for health care of the perarteries. The patient develops medical indigent among a heart attack. A physician is sons 65 or over. However, the AMA stressed, summoned and within three the patient must reserve the hours a clot-dissolving drug right to choose his own physi-| By Arthur J. Snider Chicago Daily News Writer is injected. The patient not cian and the local community | must control the money, the federal government. only survives but is on his feet and working after an aston- ishingly short stay in bed. THE GLOWING prospect of | taking the terror out of a/\§ Bias heart attack is held out in two|p} reports presented at the Amerlean Medical Assn. convention Thursday. |B # Dr. Eugene ££. Cliftton of Cornell University Medical Col- lege, New BE York, said a drug, Hf Fibrinolysin, has produced en-|§ couraging preliminary results in dissolving the plug responsi- ble for a coronary attack. Of the first 45 patients treated with it, 39 are still alive. With further refinements, he expects improved results. | a-« Fibrinolysin is an enzyme which normally forms in theif | body when a clot devs'sz2.: IN RECENT years, methods ; have been developed by which | | Fibrinolysin can be isolated |§ from human blood plasma, stored, and injected safely into. : the stricken his own patient natural to raise |f level of Fibri- nolysin. The blood is obtained from blood banks. : anticoagulant, A Fibrinolysin differs from an|f by President the Anticoagulant keep drug taken Eisenhower. seeks the clot from to forming but if cannot do anythinz ef- fective after a clot is formed. Blood clots, which block off portions of the human | circula- tory system and deny vital|| organs and tissues their necr-|§ mal supply of nutrient blood, |f are the major causes in the United States. of ceath |R They not only cause heart attacks but strokes, high blood pressure, and eye hemorrhages. _ Many young mothers, shortly after delivery, develop clots | is{f aif clot big enough breaks off and is carried to the lungs, it can cause death through what doc- in their leg veins. This known as phlebitis. When tors call pulmonary embolism. A NEW DRUG particularly aimed at phlebitis was announced to the physicians Thursday by Dr. William G. Anlyan, Duke University surgeon. Known as Thrombolysin, it is a better and less toxic drug | than any developed so far, he! ' said. & - ON THE political front, the not |