Re: State of the Radiation Safety Art (1950 - 1955)

[John Jacobus <crispy_bird@YAHOO.COM>]

I would also suggest Paul Frame at FRAMEP@ORAU.GOV





--- "Joel T. Baumbaugh" <baumbaug@SPAWAR.NAVY.MIL>

wrote:



> 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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-- John

John Jacobus, MS

Certified Health Physicist

e-mail:  crispy_bird@yahoo.com





	

		

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