Word: treatments
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...censors sat through five showings to make up their minds, called in psychiatrists, clergymen and social workers, finally insisted on chopping out eight of the film's most harrowing minutes. Cuts: scenes showing Actress Olivia de Havil-land undergoing shock treatment and a mental lapse; a patient drooling food; another in a strait jacket; several scenes of mad behavior that, the censors feared, might touch off hysterical audience laughter...
...effects from this treatment have been noted. When radio-therapy was first used an the correct doseage was not accurately known, a few cases of "radiation sickness" were noted, but this had been encountered before the use of radium treatments and hence was not overly alarming...
...patient drinks a glass of water containing the tasteless radioactive iodine. The treatment is not only simple, but should be inexpensive. Even as now produced by cyclotrons, it costs less than a surgical operation...
...interview yesterday. Dr. Hertz stressed the production of this new form of treatment as an example of the need for close interaction between technological science and the medical profession for full utilization of these fields. He warned that in a sense, this discovery might tend toward a complacent attitude in regard to pushing forward toward the development of even more fundamental forms of treatment of Grave's disease. However, he emphasized this example in therapeutic application as a beacon in utilizing the tracer methods employing radioactive substances for the analysis of cellular function, growth, metabolism and nutrition in the body...
Radioactive isotopes of phosphorus have been employed in palliative therapy in such conditions as leukemia and polycythemia; but the goiter treatment by means of radioactive iodine he holds, represents a "first" in what he hopes will be a long series of definitive treatment based upon the application of fundamental researches of the nuclear physicists...