Word: ultraviolet
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...envelopes are made of orange-red fluorescent-treated transparent plastic. The lamp may be the four-watt, 24-28-volt black light already standard with both the Army & Navy. When the lamp is held five inches above an envelope, the latter's fluorescent surface steps up the short ultraviolet waves enough to make them visible, not enough to destroy eye adaptation. The illumination, unlike that of an ordinary dim light, is confined to the reading surface, will light a 36-sq-in. map or photograph inside the envelope, but cannot be seen by an attacking plane...
...treatment for the relief of severe bronchial asthma, announced last fortnight, makes use of a sensational blood purge. The "Knott technique" removes part of the patient's blood, passes it through a precision machine which exposes it to ultraviolet light for a few seconds, then returns it at once to the veins. The new treatment was presented by Drs. George Miley and R. E. Seidel of Philadelphia's Hahnemann Medical College before the Pan-American Homeopathic Congress in Cincinnati...
...Miley had already used ultraviolet blood irradiation, first conceived in 1928 by a Seattle physicist and X-ray dealer named Emmet K. Knott, to cure septicemia or "blood poisoning" (TIME, June 24, 1940). He found that the ultraviolet rays not only killed the septicemic bacteria in the blood stream but increased the oxygen content of the blood-just the thing, he suspected, for asthmatics wheezy to the point of strangulation. In the last three years he has tried the Knott technique on 24 asthma patients, all of whom defied treatment by conventional methods such as nasal surgery, allergy studies, adrenalin...
...Knott technique from ½ to 1½ pints of blood (depending on the patient's size) are exposed to ultraviolet irradiation every four to six weeks until the asthmatic symptoms decline markedly, then at greater intervals until treatment need be given only three or four times a year. Two-thirds of Dr. Miley's asthma patients "have shown very definite improvement...
...that the tissues heal. The Institutum scientists set out to manufacture these Hypothetical hormones (which Dr. Sperti" christened "biodynes") in the laboratory so that they could be applied to human wounds to accelerate healing. At first the biodynes were created by exposing tissues from rat and chicken embryos to ultraviolet rays. This injured some of the cells and induced production of the healing substances in them. The scientists now extract the biodynes from 1) fish-liver oils and 2) heated yeast cells. The extracts are mixed with a petrolatum and lanolin base, sell for $3 a pound. Dr. Sperti said...