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...links set with brightly colored, plastic-encased models of his stone-laden gall bladder or ulcer-ravaged duodenum. Creator of "The World's Sickest Looking Jewelry'' is Dr. Robert G. Zach, a Monroe, Wis. radiologist who is convinced, after years of peering at tangled viscera on X-ray plates, that beauty is not only all around him but inside him. Taking inspiration from the delicately twined tubes, sacs and ducts he photographed, Zach set to work with a dentist's drill and clear plastic, began passing out three-dimensional relief models of their innards...
...examining and operating rooms; wards are also soundproofed, and the building is air-conditioned. The prevailing odor is of strong surgical soap. The lab runs an impressive variety of tests like those for any human patient: urinalysis ($5), complete blood count ($5), vaginal smears (three for $10). X rays are used for both diagnosis and treatment. The operating room is a scale model of any good hospital o.r., with sterilizers, surgical instruments, anesthesia gear and oxygen supply. One permanent staff member lives in a sheltered outdoor kennel. A young male greyhound, he is the resident blood bank, can give...
...Everything on earth lives by grace of the sun, so better knowledge of the sun is vitally important. Solar astronomers at 126 stations around the turning earth have been watching the sun 24 hours a day. To catch its important ultraviolet and X rays, which do not penetrate to the surface, balloons soar high in the air and rockets climb to the top of the atmosphere on a regular schedule. Special instruments watch the sun's glowing outer corona, which may extend as a tenuous gas all the way to the earth...
Reverse Curves. At the Hospital for Special Surgery, doctors took X rays. The curvature, when looked at from behind, appeared like a reversed letter C; for no known reason most such curves are in this direction. Because it was a single curve it was certain to be deforming-many scoliosis cases have two curves, one right and one left like a letter S, which cancel each other out and leave a good balance, with no worse effect than a shortening of the trunk. And Margie's case was severe. Special Surgery doctors grade cases by a technique developed...
...they interrupted Margie's eighth-grade studies (a New York City schoolteacher keeps children in the hospital plugging at their work), used an instrument like poultry shears to cut a rectangular hole in the back of the cast, over the spot where the curve had been sharpest. More X rays showed the new position of the vertebrae, indicated how many would have to be fused...