Word: cooke
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Stuart D. Cook and Peter C. Dowling of the neurology service at the Veterans Administration Hospital in East Orange knew that while MS is not a directly inherited disease, it often strikes two and sometimes more members of a single family. They sought out 29 such patients and examined their patterns of pet ownership and exposure. It turned out that the MS families differed from their MS-free neighbors in one relevant respect: a greater proportion of them had small dogs (defined as those weighing less than 25 lbs., or 11.4 kg.) that stayed indoors much of the time...
...many puzzling features of MS is its geographical distribution. It is most common in northern states and decreases in incidence toward the Gulf states and the tropics. Since dogs are about equally popular in both the North and South of the U.S., some questioners of the Cook-Dowling research have asked how dogs can have anything to do with the human disease. Bowling's answer: In the warmer South, dogs are less often kept indoors as house pets, but are left to roam more freely outside than in the cooler North...
...Cook and Dowling made their first report in the London medical journal the Lancet. Now they have additional data prepared for publication, and another physician, Dr. Seymour Jotkowitz of Hackensack, has described an "impressive incidence of contact with sick dogs" in MS patients. Perhaps it is significant that among the many viruses that dogs harbor, one that causes distemper is a first cousin to that of the long-suspected human measles. Whether household pet dogs can ever be proved guilty of carrying an MS-related virus and what that virus may be are still open questions. Most veterinary authorities maintain...
...Captain Cook, Hawaii...
Performing with suspended, comatose bodies is a tough assignment for any actress. No wonder Genevieve Bujold read the script of Coma, based on Robin Cook's bestselling chiller, and said, "Oh, my God, I don't know about this!" But her doctor-writer friend Michael Crichton (The Andromeda Strain), author of the screenplay and the director, cajoled her into accepting the part. Bujold plays a surgical resident in a large Boston hospital who wonders why certain patients never regain consciousness after routine operations-and unravels a diabolical traffic in human organs. To inject as much realism as possible...