Word: copperizing
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...watched Jo Ellen get sicker and paler. Dr. Lahey remembered experiments in which rats fed nothing but milk developed anemia, which yielded only when copper as well as iron was added to their diet. He knew of no such case in human babies, but Dr. Lahey sent a sample of Jo Ellen's blood serum to Salt Lake City to be tested. Last Thanksgiving Eve, Mrs. Ellen Koenig phoned her husband from the hospital to say: "They're releasing Jo Ellen undiagnosed" (meaning incurable, in this case). At the same moment Dr. Lahey's phone was jangling...
...Ellen was a patient again. Dr. Lahey and his colleague, Dr. William Schubert, started giving her both iron and copper. Jo Ellen grew back to apparent health-although she still needs five daily doses of a solution containing copper...
...doctors in California are duplicating the work. The one feature common to all the cases is that the children were fed mostly milk; though all had vitamins, some also had a few vegetables, and a few had a little meat. Just why they are deficient in iron and copper is not clear; neither is it known whether they will have to continue taking extra iron and copper rations all their lives...
...Zirconium," said National Research Corp.'s Atomic Expert Manson Benedict, "will become as important to atomics as copper is to the electrical industry." What Scientist Benedict was talking about last week was a huge new program by the Atomic Energy Commission to use almost pure zirconium as a construction material for nuclear reactors. To three companies-National Research, Carborundum Co. and National Distillers Corp. -AEC handed out contracts to buy $70 million of the metal over the next five years. From a trickle, zirconium production will soar to 2,200,000 Ibs. annually. Price: around $6.50 a lb., less...
...heartbeat fluttering that sometimes occurs during surgery. Dr. Paul M. Zoll, assistant professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School, reported that he and his associates had stopped fibrillation and restored the normal beat in four cases by applying heavy currents (up to 720 volts) to the patient through two copper electrodes held against the chest wall. Heretofore, fibrillation has been stopped only by applying the current directly to the heart, requiring a time-consuming chest incision...