Atomic Medicine: THE GREAT SEARCH FOR CURES ON A NEW FRONTIER

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    Under this setup, atomic research is going ahead more rapidly than any other line of medical investigation. Louisiana's Dr. Jason P. Sanders was not exaggerating much when he told fellow general practitioners last week: "Work in this field is moving so fast that if a doctor is up-to-date one week, he may be behind the next."

    * The first radio-iodine used had an atomic weight of 128, but Dr. Joseph G. Hamilton, pioneering with it at the University of California complained that it lost its radioactivity too fast' Physicist Glenn Seaborg nodded, said-"I'll see what I can find." He found iodine-131 -Which is also believed to be the vital element in the H-bomb.*Thanks to the accident of prior discovery, radium has never been brought under similar control. Anyone can buy as much as he can afford and carry it home in his pocket. It might cost him $500,000 an ounce, but for a mere $3,000 he can get enough to burn through his pocket and flesh and well into his thigh bone.

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