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Show .s MEDICINE V 1 "Heat Pictures" . S . . ' :-( .' . S Now doctors can use -- fever cameras" to diagnose ailments ranging from appendicitis to cancer By THEODORE IRWIN Isn't it time you . One stopped worrying about hemorrhoids and really started rto get well? r mathod Tha Pazo Mrmoo. a I hemorrhoid traatmont davatopad from yaars of madical xporlonca, works to roduca most cauaas of and to maka aurgory unnec-saar- y for moat aufferara . . . acta quickly to roltovo hamorrhoM pain ham-orrhoi- and Irritation. Most hemorrhoid sufferers can -- avoid surgery and. expect lasting relief by acting early and following the effective course of action found in the new Pazo Method booklet THE PAZO METHOD covers the most successful medically 'approved 'methods of home care everyfrom dietary recommends- thing exercise. In l tions to proper addition," the Pazo Method booklet helps you to know when prompt, professional medical. care is advisable. THE PAZO M ETHOD, explained in siminstructions, is atple step-by-at- ep tached to each package of Pazo Ointment or Suppositories ... Faio," the hemorrhoid remedy that derelief 5 ways. livers f frinn Fwd Mi ' tPJv ifMMrBJarl I HZO i Mwtad : ! V HcalMW 1 y i ! j '.. : Ma - i taa Betty woke up with an awful pain in her tummy that wouldn't nine-year-o- ld A doctor was summoned,-bu- t he was mystified and rushed Betty to a hospital for a blood test and a new type of diagnosis thermography, which involves the taking and analysis ofheat pictures." count Although the white-bloo- d seemed normal, the "fever camera" dramatically showed up- a "hot appendix." By afternoon, the white-bloo- d count had risen, a telltale Sure "warning of appendicitis. and found enough, surgeons operated a badly inflamed appendix. The "heat pictures" probably saved Betty's life byidentifying the trou" ble at least eight hours before conventional tests could have. Countless other lives may be saved by this versatile new medical tool. The "thermograph, a novel Mineral that photographs the body's surface heat; has been in use about three " years and already has become a 'dis- ease detective which promptly uncov- 'era ailments ranging from arthritis to cancer. Tho now diagnostic technique is based on the principle that the human body sends out infrared energy (radiation) in the form of invisible "light. Now, through the new cam-- " era, this energy can be transferred into electrical impulses and then con verted into visible light to form a picture (thermograph). Heat tions in the patient's body point to diseased or abnormal tissue. . Thus far, at the Albert Einstein Medical Center in Philadelphia, chief - . -- NtTtaMSkriakat rr morning some months 1 i . SO i i MZONCTHMI anai B) fao BMM tMUd, Baj Ml MtTM It la. Ma CM?, Mr Family Weekly, July tS, 1985 ') radiologist Dr. Jacob Gershon-Cohe- n and his colleagues have used thermography effectively for more than, 2,000 patients, and at least a dozen other hospitals have recently installed the $25,000 cameras. When you are thermographed, you first stretch out and relax - for 15 minutes. Then the camera scans your body for six to 12 minutes to register the infrared rays you emit. From 1Q feet away, the remarkable instrument can record 60,000 bits of temperature" information,"" and possible to show details as small as Ys inch. Within 30 seconds after a scan, a Polaroid film can be viewed s , by doctors. The hotter tho skin temperature at any spot, the whiter the image appears on the film. Suppose you have an injured leg; it will photograph" "hot" because it emits more infrared than your good leg. During theprocedure, your body is not irradiated, as with X rays, so. that you can submit to thermog- raphy repeatedly without risk. : (furiously, the basic technique was partly .borrowed from - space - research that took temperature readof Venus from. Mariner II, ings 23,000 mile away, and ilLis.related to such infrared devices as the developed to' perceive hidden targets in WorloTWar II." Nearly 10 years ago, a Montreal surgeon noticed that a" cancerous mass was warm , to the touchy He wondered how this elevated temper-- " ature could be recorded, so he consulted Dr.' R. Bowling Barnes of Stamford, Conn., an infrared expert Dr. Barnes had developed a temperature-- jtis w - -- device for the U.S.-- ; but he could not reveal the fact to the ' Montreal physician be- recording . Army, at the time, it was classified. Five years .later, however, Dr. cause, . si VJtSI L.i 9UUU-VUUC- i.i M ai UX V11C i XU.CUMlBkClU lr.j tt : ical Center in Philadelphia called Dr. Barnes seeking a simple method for detecting hidden breast cancer. By that time, the Barnes infrared was no longer classified, so Dr. Barnes sent an Army machine ther-mozra- to Dr. Gershon-CoheToday, heat pictures can uncover n. conditions from malignant tumors to herniated discs, fractures, bursitis, suu luiuuuiuBvvij eye, car, uu dmmu- 7 o nKA i snr A ari .. In arthritis, the rise in temperature of an affected joint helps a doctor to judge response to treatment. In ailments, cold (dark) spots on a thermograph have pointed out danger areas long before they could prove fatal. At Einstein, for CO 1J ilia ii iiioMmc wiidi j.a with arteriosclerosis was thermo- . blood-vess- el V. -J-- -t - . oranriMl. tVm-- . -- that film.-ahnwe- Viia right leg had a blocked artery dangerously close to gangrene. Here, too, thermography was a lifesaver. Possibly most important is the camera's use in spotting breast cancer. In scores of cases where there has been merely a vague suspicion of led the jancerjaheat picture has hway to surgery whic- proved a 'lump" actually was cancerous. . In another case at Einstein, an elderly woman was treated for six weeks for thrombophlebitis (a serious vein inflammation) in her leg. When the therapy seemed to get nowhere, the fever camera was focused on her entire T body uncovered many "hot spots" over the ribs and pelvis that turned out to be cancer. wo a viti t nnlna Al4 Trnmorliofolv alia tuuubuutvwjf ouc vtoso Ub UllUCr ferent theranv. Because the camera can visualize . .It" . |
