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The heart, the wellspring~and fountain of life," now is the center of searches being conducted throughout the world to determine the causes and cure& for one of our greatest health enemies, heart disease. Heart disease is responsible for most premature aging and death in the United States. It is the No. 1 killer. About three hundred thousand persons in the nation die each year from "heart attack," and many thousands more suffer less serious attacks. Athero sclerosis (the serious form of arteriosclerosis, or hardening of the arteries) is the most prevalent and most serious form of heart disease, because its consequences are re sponsible for well over half of all fatalities from heart disease. Few people know or understand how atherosclerosis leads to heart attack. But medical science is constantly probing into the complex mechanisms involved, and many research ers feel that the doy will ctme when the disease can be prevented or found in its early stages and cured. These pictures, taken by the National Heart Institute, show some of the diagnostic methods and research used in th.e study of heart and blood vessels. pap; HEART STUDY. The electrokymograph, o research apparatus, which produces a lasting picture record of the various gradual- om ot movement of the cardiovascular (heart and blood vessel) silhouette os it appears on a fluoroscopic screen. MODERN STETHO I SCOPE. A French physician, Dr. Rone Laennec, in 1819 made first stetho scope from several , sheets . of paper turned to a cone which he placed to his ear. Here is the modem-day version. CHINE. The hum on heort pumps some 650,000 gollons of blood a year, weighs less than a pound. Heart model with cut away sections shows right auricle and right ventricle. MILKED. Poison gland of trppical toad i s milked for study of substances which af fect the heart and blood vessels. IN THE LAB. Dr. Forest E. Kendotl prepares cho lesterol derivatives used in study of heart disease. RESEARCH MACHINE. This device of National Heart Institute, Bethesda, Md., is used to separate and isolate biological substances involved in various aspects of heart disease. PLANT AIDS RESEARCH. Radioactive carbon dioxide it put in bell jar in which digitalis plant is growing. Extract frpm plant, e heart medicine, will be radiaoctive and traceable within body.' Ikh Wiit'l PICTURE SHOW? AP NuiImHiii.
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