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...enable doctors to follow the paths of substances through the body. For example, iodine 131, given orally or intravenously, is accumulated by the thyroid, which uses iodine to produce hormones. An imaging device detects the gamma rays given off by the isotope and translates them into dots that appear oij a TV screen. Result: help in diagnosing such disorders as hyperthyroidism and cancer...
From the Morgan treasures, energetic Librarian Bell da Costa Greene put on show eye-catching examples in all the fields in which the Library is preeminent. Oij view was a Gutenberg Bible, one of the first printed with movable type (see p. 30). There were some 60 illuminated books and manuscripts, opulent and glowing psalters, gospels, books of hours. There were a series of Rembrandt etchings, some prints showing the development of the mezzotint, many a print and drawing by the great masters. There were letters and manuscripts galore-Milton, Cromwell, Swift, Dickens, Kipling...
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