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...these, it is as good as other drugs or surgery, and probably better. Until radioisotopes began to be made (in cyclotrons) in the '303, doctors were able to use only "external radiation"-X rays from an assortment of machines-or the closely related gamma rays given off by radium as it decays to lead. But the thyroid picks up any isotope of iodine in a greater concentration than any other part of the body by a factor of 100 or more t01. So radioactive iodine (known as iodine-131 from its atomic weight)*was the answer to the radiologists...
...Wright brothers, but by 1909 one of the first of a long line of build-it-yourself articles had Popular Mechanics readers constructing their own "gliding machine." Three years later, after polling 1,000 scientists, the magazine listed the Seven Wonders of the Modern World: "wireless, telephone, aeroplane, radium, antiseptics and antitoxins, spectrum analysis, X ray." In 1915, scientific concern over the vulnerability of the Lusitania was balanced by illustrations of such bright little items as a treadmill for figure-conscious opera stars...
Died. Mrs. Florence C. Casler, 51, 41st employee of the U.S. Radium Corp. to die of radium poisoning; in East Orange, NJ. While working in the corporation's plant in Orange in 1917-19, Mrs. Casler, like the other victims, apparently swallowed bits of radium when she moistened a paintbrush with her lips while painting numerals on watch and clock dials. Apparently unaffected for 23 years, she showed the first symptoms of her fatal illness...
...cobalt bomb is 25 times as powerful as the world's biggest radium units (one at Manhattan's Roosevelt Hospital, the other in Belgium), and yet so compact that its rays are easily focused on a small area of the patient's body. And Cobalt 60 is cheap: $17,200 for London's healing metal, whereas the radium equivalent could cost $25 million...
...dies out, another often takes its place. The latest, Dr. Lederer believes, is the indiscriminate use of radium treatments for adenoids. These oldtime medical villains (once blamed for everything from bad teeth to snoring) should be left alone, he says, unless they are damaging the patient's hearing. If so, out with them...