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...determine what substances are primary irritants, clinical ecologists isolate the patient in a carefully controlled environment. At Brookhaven, for example, Rossall lives in a ceramic-tiled room (she will later move to one covered with porcelain). Her mattress is pure cotton, as are her pillows, sheets and clothes, all of which are washed in unscented baby soap or baking soda. Visitors dress in cotton garments and must not wear makeup, perfume or deodorant. At each meal she eats only one dish-ranging from organically grown vegetables to wild game such as bear and lion-prepared in aluminum pans. She drinks...
Traditional allergists wonder whether patients at Brookhaven and other special clinics are actually suffering from allergies, other physical ailments, or neuroses. Dr. Timothy Sullivan of Dallas' Parkland Hospital points out that allergic reactions are not documented by blood tests. Moreover, the diet and chemical testing relies solely on the patient's reporting, a subjective process open to self-fulfilling prophecies. Says Dr. Sheldon Spector of Denver's National Jewish Hospital: "If you're convinced your teeth are going to itch when you eat wheat, then they will itch." Despite the dispute, desperate sufferers are eager...
Intraoperative Autotransfusion. A patient's blood, shed in the course of an operation, is not discarded but instead recycled into his body. Autotransfusion has been tried occasionally since the 1800s, but the equipment used in the process damaged the blood. Furthermore, contaminated blood caused infection. Worse still, air was sometimes pumped into the patient, killing...
...methods have virtually eliminated these risks. Blood is cleansed to remove damaged red cells and other debris. The collected blood can be hung in a plastic bag above the patient's head and transfused by gravity. Autotransfusion is especially suitable where blood loss is great, as in trauma patients or those undergoing cardiac or orthopedic surgery. At Boston's Beth Israel Hospital, where autotransfusion is used in all heart operations, the need for donor blood in such surgery dropped 60% last year. Using the patient's own blood eliminates the possibility that his blood type will...
...Living Dead by making the villains brown, turdshaped creatures who neatly slipped in any out of any available human orifice. In The Brood, his 1979 entry starring Oliver Reed and Samantha Eggar. Cronenberg realized a brilliant and original idea. Doctor Reed develops a radical psychological treatment that enables his patients to manifest, physically, their traumas and neuroses. Eggar, his star warped patient, grows living, breathing children off her chest. These faceless perversions, products of her illness, band together to destroy anyone who might upset her delicate psyche. That's the kind of idea that turned Cronenberg into a legend. Avco...