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From blackout, the dance moves to a striking processional--two men (John Noran, Kenneth Train) carrying a stiff Eugenie Doyle, her arms stretched beyond her head, fingers spread. They tilt her up and she slides down the backs of the two men, down the closely following Thaddeus Bartter, to the floor where she lands gracefully: the earth has absorbed all shock and accepted her into its fallow ground...
...climax of this epic is a fight between Bartter and Alejandro for Rika, with the sharp, pointed-foot Bartter the victor over the flexed- foot Alejandro. Bartter executes some stunning leaps, but comes down a little hard on stage; no longer is mother earth so accepting...
...Bartter team started with two known facts. Parathyroid hormone, secreted by the thyroid's tiny satellite glands, directs the removal of calcium from bone and its release into the blood. One of the thyroid's own hormones, thyrocalcitonin, controls the converse-the transfer of calcium from blood to bone. These two hormones balance each other in normal metabolism by an exquisitely delicate feedback mechanism. Too little calcium in the blood signals the parathyroids to take some out of the bones and put it into circulation; a sufficiency of calcium in the blood induces a stop order from...
Surprise Bonus. Bartter and his colleagues reasoned that if they could boost the blood's calcium content safely, the effect would be to slow down the loss of calcium from bone. They chose a compound containing calcium gluconate and infused it into the patients' veins. They settled on a dose of 1 gram (1/30 oz.) for a 145-lb. man and took four hours to administer it to avoid overstimulating the heart. The infusions were given twelve times, a day or two apart...
...only did nine of the first twelve patients report relief from pain and regain their ability to move about and lift objects without suffering fractures, but there was also a bonus that Dr. Bartter had scarcely dared to hope for. The treatment's effect lasted for months, and in one case for more than two years. If the effect wears off, Bartter says, the infusions can be easily and safely repeated. While no one yet claims to know what 'makes nature's calcium-regulating mechanism go wrong, medical science now has a way to put it right...