Dr. med. S. Rascher, Munich, and Dr. med. H. Haferkamp,
Waltershausen (Thuringia).
A good hemostat has to have the following qualifications:
1. It must be harmless.
2. It must be administered easily (orally).
3. It must not have an unpleasant taste.
4. It must have a deep and long-lasting effect on bleeding and clotting time.
5. After the effect wears off it must be possible to administer another dose without any danger.
Hemostats now on sale commercially meet these demands only partially. No unobjectionable hemostat is known so far which is in tablet form, durable, unimpaired by cold temperatures and therefore easily transportable. But it would be worthwhile to produce such a preparation whose application would have the following important advantages:
1. It could be given prophylactically to the combat troops before an attack and to air crews before action. Too great a loss of blood could be avoided that way when tending to wounds is delayed; similarly it would prevent the wounded from becoming incapacitated by delaying the loss of blood.