Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 55, Number 298, Decatur, Adams County, 19 December 1957 — Page 13

THURSDAY, DECEMBER 19. .1957

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Basic Research On Knitting Os Bones Way Finally Found For Bone Research By DELOS SMITH United Press Science Editor NEW YORK (UP)—lf you have any question about the value of what scientists call “basic research,” consider broken bones. People have been breaking their bones ever since there were people, yet there is no known way of knitting broken bones together faster than nature knits them. The rrason? No basic research. The reason why there hasn't been any, Was the lack of away of studying nature’s knitting techniques in the living body, with the idea of finding out how to hurry them along. But now the way has been found — and the basic research is about to begin. This way couples rats with radioactive strontium which is the element most to be feared in the "fall out” after a hydrogen bomb explosion. Strontium likes bone. When it gets into the body, it gets into the bones with amazing rapidity.

‘, Strontium Extremely Danjerous i I But the hydrogen bomb—made ’ i from strontium — has an atomic '! weight of 90 and a half-life of 28 i; years that makes it extremely ' dangerous. For the purpose of i studying bone - knittings, stron- \ tium-85 was especially constructed by atomic bombardment in a cyclotron. SR-85 has a great safe- , ty advantage over SR-90. It's half- ! life is only 65 days. i So you inject SR-85 into a rat. ; A very tiny amount will do. This i rat has a newly broken bone. You have a gamma ray spectrometer i Vet up over the precise site of die ' fracture, so it will measure the i gamma rays originating from the ' break, but ftom no where else, ! I SR-85 gives off gamma rays. i i They have incredible energy and ' ’ pass through the soft tissues i ■ around bones without being diJ . verted or changed or harming the i ' soft tissue. When the spectrome- ' ter picks up the first gamma rays J coming from the break, you know i the knitting process has started ! You can then follow it minute bj i minute as it continues. J Developed By -New Englanders ' This clever tool for basic rc. ' search was devised by Drs J. H. ' Heller. H. Konig, and L. Fox of | ’the New England Institute for J Medical Research, Ridgefield, i Conn. [4 SR-85 -is- unusual- among thei i isotopes of the bone-seeking ele--1 j ments, strontium and calcium, in I that it gives off with gamma rays. The others emit electrons or beta rays, and those are not much jgood for this work. Electron emissions are shortened in range by soft tissue. Some would escape measurement and that would mess up the results. Beta emissions travel very short dis- ' tanccs and thus, damage the soft tissues. It is rountine in science now, but the layman has to be impressed that scientists can go to cyclotron and get a radioactive isotope precisely tailored to his experimental needs. -

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No Report BRATTLEBORO. Vt. — (UP) — The city was forced to pay $3,000 for a traffic report it never saw. Aidermen cancelled a traffic survey undertaken by a New York firm after it was half-completed. They said they got tired of waiting for the report. A total of 359,528 Union soldiers were killed or died of disease during the Civil War. Confederate losses totaled 133,785.

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Power Tool Hazard In Amateur's Hands Wave Os Casualties Sweeping Country By Delos smith United Preu Science Editor - NEW YORK (UP)-Power tools in the hands of enthusiastic amateurs are “homicidal" tools, according to an authoritative medical summing-up of the wave of do-it-yourself casualties now sweeping the country. Fatalities have beer- relatively few, fortunately, but lacerations, multiple fractures, and burns have been common contrary to medical expectations, however, relatively few fingers of do-it-yourselfers have been amputated by hand power saws — the deep cuts into flesh haven't been that deep. The tone of the summing-up in the technical publication "Pfizer Spectrum” was tolerant and resigned. “Perhaps there will al-

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ways be a totally Idiotic sector of the population to climb a metallic ladder near electric wires," it remarked. Doesn’t Know "Do-it-yourself has merely widened the opportunities for these people to wipe themselves out, or at any rate present themselves tattered and bleeding all over the (doctor's) office floor.” The summing-up had no fault to find with the “do-it-yourself spirit.” Indeed, it found the spirit admirable. "The catastrophe of do it-yoursglf is in not knowing,” it said. "Professional workmen may be less than gifted," the publication said. “Often their sole advantage is a body of information which is, as a matter of fact, rather limited and not even up-to-date. Presumably the patient who amassed funds enough to buy a glittering new homicidal tool has the wit to learn techniques that are simple enough but, at first, merely unknown to him." Too Eager But the average do-it-yourselfer doesn’t undertake even to read up

on these techniques before he 1 "unwraps his new gadget and ’ Jooks eagerly about for a place to ' use it.” Now, take the hand pow- < er saw, the summing • up continued. Usually it has a wire by which it may be grounded, but often there is no ground to which it can be attached. So the do-it-yourselfer standing on damp ground runs it on, ignorant that perhaps a • short-circuit will direct 110 volts of alternating current into the handle and so into his hand. He can neither guide

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the tool nor turn It off since electric current is paralyzing his muscles. ‘‘The result is a picturesque, deep laceration of the thigh, usually, not far from the femoral artery." SCHOOLREPORTER girls had a supper last Tuesday evening, the last period of the day. It was complete their grade for the semester. It really smelled good. They had hamburger fixed various ways and also corn, pudding and all sorts of good things.