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Meanwhile other thinkers produced a variety of other life savers, among them a suit of aluminum pajamas, a lead foil brassiere to protect "mammary projections" and a lead girdle (which would be valueless unless it were six inches thick) to protect the spleen. All were gently but firmly discouraged. So was at least one man who was peddling perfectly valid information-the inner four pages of the CDA's 10? official survival book. He was reselling the pages for a dollar...
...Durovic worked from the premise that the growth of healthy cells is controlled by a regulator substance. When the regulator is missing, uncontrolled proliferation of cells -i.e., cancer-results. In some unspecified way, Durovic "stimulated" the reticulo-endothelial system of horses-a group of cells in the liver, spleen, bone marrow and lymphatic tissue which is believed to have some connection with the disease-fighting capacities of the body. Then, from the blood serum of the horses, Durovic extracted and purified a white powder which he believes to contain the regulator substance. He named it Krebiozen, a Greek derivative meaning...
...could, and jumped out into the air. He fell on his stomach. He lay on the ground, scratched and dirty, and unable to get up. His mother, summoned by the playmate, hurried him to a doctor; a few minutes later Dickie was being rushed to Glendale Community Hospital. His spleen was ruptured and he had other internal injuries...
Plutonium is different. When it gets into the human body, it accumulates in the bones and spleen and stays there, gradually killing the tissue cells around it. A mere trace is poisonous. Water containing more than one millimicrogram of plutonium per liter (one part in one trillion) is dangerous. Isolating it does no good: plutonium loses only one-half of its activity in 25,000 years...
Experimenting on a rabbit, Dr. Jacobson found that when the spleen and appendix were protected with lead, the animal survived what would otherwise have been a fatal overdose of X rays. The undamaged spleen and appendix make enough blood to enable the damaged tissue to recover...