Word: thyroid
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Saul Hertz, instructor in Medicine in the Medical School, has announced that he has founded an institution, The Radioactive Isotope Research Institute, whose purpose is to apply radioactive fission products to the treatment of the thyroid cancer, goiter, and other malignant growths...
...Hertz is connected with both the Medical School and Beth Israel Hospital as medical associate and research associate. In the past, he has been in charge of the Thyroid Clinic of the Massachusetts General Hospital and Research Associate at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology...
Chiefly concerned are isotopes of elements which the thyroid, especially in cases of toxic goiter, has the property of absorbing and concentrating at the afflicted portion of the gland. This process enables the radiation emitted by the radioactive isotopes to destroy harmful growths. Other elements which do not become concentrated in the body as iodine does, may be used in research on body chemistry, since by their effect on a Geiger counter, their progress through the body may be traced--thus they are termed "tracer elements...
...Hertz was born in Cleveland and is a graduate of the Harvard Medical School Class of 1929. After an internship and residency in Medicine at Mt. Sinal Hospital in Cleveland, he returned to Boston and has been active in research in thyroid disease since 1931. He has contributed numerous scientific articles in endocrinology and is a member of the Society for Clinical investigation and the Federation of Experimental and Biological Societies. He is also a member of Phi Beta Kappa. He has been on the staff of the Massachusetts General Hospital and was in charge of the Thyroid Clinic until...
...even more fundamental forms of treatment of Grave's disease. However, he emphasized this example in therapeutic application as a beacon in utilizing the tracer methods employing radioactive substances for the analysis of cellular function, growth, metabolism and nutrition in the body and in other organs than the thyroid. He pointed out that knowledge gained about the thyroid has already led him and others to many stimulating theories in the cancer and enzyme fields...