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Doctors still do not know whether Hodgkin's disease is a tumor caused by infection or a true cancer resulting from changes in the reproductive mechanism of cells in the lymphatic system. And because of their inability to decide between these two theories, they grasp at every straw that may offer a clue to the cause of the disease. Such a clue has been reported by the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston: two medical students who lived in the same room, but at different times, developed Hodgkin's disease within a few months, or possibly weeks. Could that...
...fortunate fact that Hodgkin's is a relatively rare disease (3,300 deaths a year in the U.S.) makes it tough for epidemiologists to answer such questions. They have at last figured out that if one member of a family has Hodgkin's, the chance that close relatives will get it is about three times greater than normal. But when such related cases occur, are they the result of inherited factors, or of infection, or just coincidence? As for the students, the two men were unrelated and did not even come from the same town...
...fraternity house, while No. 1 lived off the campus with his wife. But when No. 2 went away for a few weeks in early 1962, No. 1 moved into his dormitory room. It is now clear that No. 2 was then already showing the first signs of Hodgkin's and No. 1's case developed six months later...
...Dorothy Hodgkin's singular achievement was born of a peculiar amalgam of scholarship and domesticity. Her family is scattered now; her husband, whom she married in 1937, is director of the Institute of African Studies in Ghana, where she is now visiting. Her three children are spread among Algeria, Zambia and India. But her old Victorian house in north Oxford still buzzes with her sister's collection of five kids...
...Hodgkin's orderly mind seems to thrive on a diet of clutter and clatter. After graduation from Oxford, when she went into research, her first lab was in a dingy basement under the university museum. It was her precarious exercise to climb a ladder to a gallery while carrying the delicate crystals with which she worked. But whatever the circumstances, she maintained an elegance of appearance and achievement. No distraction was enough to spoil the work that led to a thorough knowledge of the penicillin molecule, and to the discovery of the structure of Vitamin B12, the recalcitrant molecule...