Word: thyroids
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...Thyroids. Inspectors armed with Geiger counters and chemical test apparatus swarmed over the dairy farms, testing grass, cows, milk and eggs. At first everything looked all right, but after a few days, inspectors reported samples of fresh milk spiked with radioactive iodine 131. The cows of Geiger Gulch were eating contaminated grass, and the concentration of iodine 131 in their milk and thyroid glands was building up. No sample was found to be really dangerous, but as a precaution, all milk from 150 farms was ordered dumped. Later the embargo was extended to 1,000 more farms...
...advised to move to a warm climate (on the theory that in cold temperatures tissues require a greater blood supply, which puts a strain on the heart). With better drug control, such moves are rarely advised now. Patients used to be subjected to surgery to remove part of the thyroid gland. This can now be done by simply swigging an "atomic cocktail" of radioactive iodine. Tobacco is no longer banned in all cases-"there is little point in forbidding a tense patient to smoke a little, if that serves to relax him." Also, "if one or two drinks...
...September 1949, after his trial, Mindszenty was suffering acutely from "my old disease, my thyroid disturbance." Transferred to Budapest's Conti Prison, he was held in solitary confinement for four years, the cells on each side of him empty to prevent wall-tapping communication. His cell was "small and crumbling. There was a straw mat to sleep on, a table, a stool, a small bucket for one's needs and another for water." While in solitary, "I received no mail, read no newspapers and no books except my breviary and my Bible . . . Each day I said my rosary...
...least in conjunction with anesthesia. This demonstration was viewed last week on closed-circuit TV by physicians at an international meeting of anesthesiologists in Manhattan. Only the week before, he had performed a similar service for a patient in Chicago, Mrs. Roberta Westwood, with an enlarged and overactive thyroid. After four weeks of preparation and a day-before dress rehearsal, Dr. Kroger carried out his hypnoanesthesia at Edgewater Hospital, and most of the patient's thyroid was cut out in an hour-long operation. Mrs. Westwood wakened as directed, sat up on the operating table, asked for a drink...
Last week three doctors on the staff of Manhattan's Memorial Center for Cancer and Allied Diseases reported the first substantial breakthrough on the radiation-damage front. Noting that patients with overactive thyroids seemed to suffer less radiation injury, they tried a synthetic thyroid hormone product, triiodothyronine. Of 26 patients who got the "T3" in an ointment within two to four weeks after damaging radiation, 22 showed a good to excellent response; in two it was only fair, and two had to give up because of allergic reactions. All 26 reported immediate relief of pain...