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Re: State of the Radiation Safety Art (1950 - 1955)
I'd suggest contacting Dr. Newel Stannard (I KNOW that I've misspelled
his name) in San Diego and ask him. Someone on this list must have his
email address.
Joel Baumbaugh (baumbaug@nosc.mil)
SSC-SD
----- Original Message -----
From: "Howard Long" <hflong@pacbell.net>
Date: Saturday, August 14, 2004 9:17 am
Subject: Re: State of the Radiation Safety Art (1950 - 1955)
> In 1949, my rural FP preceptor treated a man with shoulder
> bursitis by long exposure from his diagnostic x-ray machine. Dr.
> Duniewitz had innovated ECGs to UCSF pediatric wards, so was
> unusual, but spoke as if it were standard treatment, at least for him.
>
> Stimulation of circulation by needling is also effective for
> bursitis, so I believe docors recognized increased circulation
> from radiation in the early 1950s, as reported by Jerry Cuttler in
> a paper on treatment of gangrene with local 75 rem doses,
> discussed at Doctors for Disaster Preparedness meetings
> www.oism.org/DDP and on rad-sci-1@WPI.edu.
>
> Also anecdotal, a health physicist on whom I removed an arm
> melanoma, calculated it got 4500 rem while he was an army X ray
> tech holding films in a field hospital in WW2
>
> Howard Long
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: james.g.barnes@att.net
> To: RadSafe Bulletin Board
> Sent: Friday, August 13, 2004 5:22 PM
> Subject: State of the Radiation Safety Art (1950 - 1955)
>
>
> Dear all;
>
>
>
> I am working on a project that requires an understanding of what
> we knew about the hazards / benefits of radiation exposure in the
> 1950 - 55 time frame. In other words, we probably didn't know as
> much about biological radiation effects back then that we now
> know. What I'm trying to do is establish what we did know and
> when we knew it.
>
>
>
> I have purchased some second hand books that will be helpful,
> but I was wondering if anyone a) knows what radiation health
> textbooks were considered standard at the time, and b) knows where
> I might be able to find a copy of them.
>
>
>
> Also, if any of you know of any assumptions that were made in
> the 1945 - 1955 time frame about radiation effects than were then
> found to be false, I'd be interested in hearing about them
> (especially if you happen to have any references documenting these
> assumptions).
>
>
> Thanks,
>
>
>
> Jim Barnes, CHP
>
> james.g.barnes@att.net
>
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