The patient set down the paper cup and looked surd'
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"vvny, I didn't taste a thing!" she said. "It was just like,, drinking a glass of water!" The new "atomic cocktail" treatment is actually as easy as that;
The patient simply takes a drink of water containing
radioactive iodine. -
The dose is too small to taste. The patient doesn't; feel anything unusual, either; There will be no pain, no irritation, and no incpnveniehce; except for a few simple rules to be followed for 48 hours.
But in two or three weeks this young woman's symptoms of severe hyperthyroidism will be gone.
She is one of the dozens of patients who have been treated with radioactive materials at Touro Infirmary...ontinuous research and experiments are also under way both at Touro and in other hospitals, as well as in both the LSU and Tulane medical schools. TOMOR-ROW—Gynecology. PHOTO CAPTION READS: A GEIGER COUNTER is used to test the thyroid activity of "atomic cocktail" patients.
