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The student nurse was still in her teens when rheumatic fever struck. She made an average recovery, but the infection had raged around the aortic valve, through which the heart's blood passes to the great artery for distribution to the rest of the body. As the inflammation died...
Because carbon occurs in nearly all the thousands of chemicals in the body, carbon-14 is the most widely useful tag in the isotope catalogue. Sometimes the tag can be hung on easily in the laboratory; sometimes nature has to be called in to help with "biosynthesis." In a fifth...
Foxglove tea was an old wives' remedy for heart cripples hundreds of years ago; 170 years have passed since Withering gave the treatment medical respectability. Doctors know that digitalis goes to the heart, but they want to know how long it stays there and how it is broken down...
Dr. Ed Brucker, 27, intern in "Female Admitting," shook his head and patted the brother on the shoulder. The woman was wheeled away, for oxygen and digitalis, and more detailed examination. The next case, a woman with an injured leg, arrived in a wheelchair.
Upstairs, the old diabetic seemed to be resting quietly (though, next day, he was to take a turn for the worse and die in the night). The 70-year-old heart patient who wanted God to take her was in the hands of a girl intern, who found she was...