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...inside of a diseased human bladder seems an unlikely setting for color TV. But that is where some Chicago urologists have been working; they find the views rewarding for their patients' benefit, and they gain the benefit of permanent videotape records of what they have seen...
...first devices -cystoscopes- for enabling the diagnosing physician to look directly into the bladder were made as long ago as 1877. Despite technical improvements, they still have some shortcomings. Only one doctor at a time can look inside the patient; when the next doctor, or a medical student, looks in, the view may well have changed. There is no pictorial record of what is seen, and the doctor has to write a description in such vague terms as "patchy hemorrhaging...
...Into the Bladder. As for the eye changes reported in animals, Cornell University's Ophthalmologist Dan M. Gordon reports that he used DMSO to treat swollen, waterlogged corneas, conjunctivitis and inflammation of other eye-related tissues. In many cases, results were excellent; in none could DMSO be blamed for any lens changes. One of the most distressing conditions that DMSO seemed to help was Hunner's ulcer, an inflammation of the bladder causing painful urination as often as every ten minutes. No other generally effective medical treatment is known. But any urologist now giving DMSO directly into...
...also lambasted the "bladder theory"--that sex is simply a release of pressure--and the idea that the entire object of sex is having children...
...budget deficit for fiscal 1967, which began in July. As it turned out, the cost of Viet Nam this year was $10 billion greater than the President publicly estimated, and, says Chicago Economist John Langum, "Viet Nam was to the booming economy like too much beer to a weak bladder." Instead of raising taxes to finance the war and frustrate inflation, Johnson took the politically easy way out, left it up to Martin's Federal Reserve Board, and through it U.S. bankers, to crimp the nation's credit. The irony is that Johnson's party lost heavily...