Since the dawn of modern medicine the vermiform appendix has seemed to be a completely useless organ. This week, the University of Chicago's Dr. Leon 0. Jacobson suggested that a use for the appendix may have been found.
Victims of radiation sickness (e.g., after an atomic bombing) are likely to die of anemia because the blood-building properties of the bone marrow are damaged. In everyday medical practice, X-ray dosages have to be worked out with utmost care to keep the patient from falling prey to radiation sickness. Treatment of cancer is often hampered by...
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