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...loose with radium preparations, knowing and recking nothing of the dangers.* The salesman dropped in at the plant in East Orange, NJ. where Radithor was made, horse-traded his guitar for four cases (25 bottles to the case) of elixir. Each tiny bottle contained about a millionth of a gram of radium, the same amount of mesothorium...
...possibility is that Dr. Evans was overconservative back in 1941 when he set the safe "maximum permissible body burden" of radium at one ten-millionth of a gram. If so, some of the alarm about recent fallout may be allayed, because the 1941 radium standard was the base on which all other permissible body burdens have been computed. But if Dr. Evans was overconservative then, it was a good fault: after the haphazard misuse of radium only a decade earlier, a strong corrective was needed...
...priced medications currently in general use-fibrinogen, a fraction of human blood. Fibrinogen restores the clotting power of blood, which may almost vanish when a woman hemorrhages during labor, or in patients of either sex after major surgery. Average cost of fibrinogen to the patient: $50 to $55 a gram (1/30 oz.). Average amount used in a single course of treatment...
Cutter, which markets fibrinogen under the trade name Parenogen, packs an explanatory card with every gram. On a tear-off part aimed at physicians, it urges: "Make sure that this gets to the one who pays the patient's bill, preferably at the time of injection or when the bill is presented. The costliness of Parenogen will come as a shock and will surely be resented unless it is fully understood. Help avoid this unnecessary resentment by seeing that this gets to the bill payer...
...camera to analyze how the insect cocks its rear legs "by squatting with the femurs (thighs) doubled against the tibiae (shins)," rears up and takes off with a velocity of about 10 ft. per second. The jumping muscle of the grasshopper, which weighs only one twenty-fifth of a gram, develops "the astounding power of some 20,000 grams per gram of its own weight," or ten times the power of human muscles working at top speed. Says Hoyle: "The only known muscles in the whole animal world that equal this power are the shell-closing muscles of the clam...