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Seven years ago the disease was described and tagged with the forbidding name of retrolental fibroplasia-because it seemed to be a growth of abnormal, fibrous tissue behind the lens of the eye. Doctors could not agree on whether the disease was new, or had simply gone unnoticed. Some said that the tiny victims were born with R.L.F.; others that it developed later...
Lens & Retina. Their most notable conclusion in this period: the fibrous tissue was not a foreign growth between the lens and the retina (the sensitive screen upon which the lens focuses images), but a swollen, greyish transformation of the retina itself. It occurred when the babies were between two and four months...
Meanwhile, another radioactivity case came to a tragic but clear-cut end. Dorothy L. Burns, 30, last fall sued Westinghouse for $200,000, claiming that she had contracted radiation sickness in a war-job at Westinghouse's Bloomfield, NJ. plant. Her illness, marked by fibrous degeneration of both lungs and a slow wasting away, puzzled doctors. Last week Miss Burns died. Reported Medical Examiner Harrison S. Martland (who in the '20s discovered radium sickness among a group of women painting luminous watch dials): Miss Burns did not die of radiation sickness. Her illness was beryllium poisoning, caused...
Woodward, who made the headlines back in 1944 as co-discoverer of artificial synthesis of quinine, is now the first to synthesize a substance with the same molecular structure as fibrous proteins. This is the basic stuff of all forms of animal life...
There was no doubt that slim, dark, 30-year-old Dorothy L. Burns was desperately ill. But what had caused her chest pains, coughing spasms, and the slow fibrous degeneration of both lungs...