Word: bethesda
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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From the 18-story tower building of the National Naval Medical Center in Bethesda, Md., Senate Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson went home last week, remarkably recovered after a severe heart attack. Only the week before, the President of the U.S. had driven up to Walter Reed Army Medical Center, on Washington's outskirts, to have his eyes tested for new bifocals. (It turned out that he did not need any.) Almost any time a Washington VIP needs medical attention, one of the two big military hospitals is likely to be picked for his care. By Act of Congress, they...
...patients a year-some flown in from ships of the Navy, Army posts and Air Force bases scattered around the world. Each general hospital is the hub of a great medical center, designed for teaching and research as well as patient-care. Walter Reed and Bethesda are constantly and quietly pioneering along many medical lines...
Mice Under Stress. The Navy has one problem which the Army is glad to pass: the sardine-packing of 3,000 or more men into the hull of a single ship for months on end. So the Naval Medical Research Institute at Bethesda is crowding mice into little boxes and checking the working of their adrenal glands (an index to stress). Purpose: to learn how and why their "vitality and viability" go down in a crowd. Other Bethesda specialties...
...tissue bank, only one of its kind in the country. Designed and supervised by Dr. (Lieut. Commander) George W. Hyatt, it has already supplied needed parts of human anatomy, whether soft tissue or bone, for more than 700 patients. If a Bethesda surgeon wants a piece of bone, skin, artery, fascia (muscle sheathing) or dura (brain covering), he can find it in bottles neatly stacked on the first floor. For a long time, the great problem was to keep the tissues fresh. Ordinary refrigeration and thawing made them useless. The Navy got around this by ultra-rapid freeze-drying...
...Bethesda's most engaging gadgets is a walkie-talkie electrocardiograph about the size of a hearing aid. Developed by Captain Norman Barr, it is strapped to a patient, who goes for a walk or plays tennis while his doctor sits back in the control room, hears the patient's heart sounds on an amplifier, watches the electrical pattern on an oscilloscope and gets a tracing of this in ink. Dr. (ex-pilot) Barr has two models: one with a range of a mile, one with a range of 80 to 100 miles that he uses to study aviators...