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...Navymen recommended: salt water. Cholera victims are weakened and killed by a catastrophic loss of body fluids through vomiting and diarrhea (as many as 15 quarts in a day); they can nearly always be saved by prompt, aggressive treatment, in which saline solution is given intravenously, sometimes with sodium bicarbonate. The Manila government did not get enough of the solutions or the equipment to administer them...
...better Doomsday effect, large bombs could be made as radioactive as possible. One way is to "salt" them with sodium, which becomes intensely radioactive when it absorbs neutrons. Clark figures that a 20,000-megaton bomb of this kind would contaminate 200,000 square miles (four times the area of New York State) so heavily that even people in basement shelters would surely die. But since the half life of radioactive sodium 24 is only 15 hours, the bomb's products would lose much of their punch before the wind could carry them around the earth. Thus, a sodium...
...Harvard Medical School and surgeon in chief of Peter Bent Brigham Hospital, Dr. Moore is the nation's-perhaps the world's-outstanding authority on the vital importance of "electrolyte balance" in preserving life (TIME, Oct. 6,1952). The balance is usually expressed simply in terms of sodium salt solutions v. potassium salt solutions in the blood. But recent years' work has shown that it is far more complex than that...
...going up!" shouted the Prime Minister. The solid-fueled, multiple-stage rocket (the number of stages was a military secret) tilted slightly and soared up 50 miles. There it emitted a cloud of sodium vapor-a standard means of enabling observers to track ionospheric wind currents...
Hard-won knowledge of the body's complex chemistry has developed the use of hormones such as ACTH and cortisone and their synthetic variants, and has led to life-saving control of a patient's sodium and potassium during severe illness and surgery. Thanks to new machines (see box), what once seemed impossible and then miraculous is now almost common place. And, notes U.C.L.A.'s Medical Dean Stafford Warren, "More medical research has been published since World War II than in all prior history...