DRAFT
see if you,
you don't understand what radiation doses do you?
BERGE:
What do you mean by I don't understand?
KOHN:
Well,
radiation dose means the amount of radiation you
give to each cubic centimeter of tissue that's being exposed. What
I found was,
if you irradiated this part of my neck, we'll say,
you got one affect.
bigger affect.
affect.
radiated.
If you radiated down to here,
you got another
If you radiate down to here you get a still bigger
So it's proportional to the amount of body mass that was
Now you think that if the dose was,
now let's see.
Well it was surprising to me that's all I can say,
turn it out that way.
BERGE:
Now was
KOHN:
Yes.
Nobody,
that it should
it hadn't been observed before.
this X-radiation?
It was the clinic...Another surprising thing was
it took, maybe not so surprising,
treatment the dose,
but anyhow,
the count fell,
during the course of
and then it would take five or
six months for recovery to take place.
But recovery did take
place.
BERGE:
Because I think during that period of time was also when
a number of people on our side of the bay were doing blood count
studies,
but I think they were using,
they were doing blood count
studies after injections of either phosphorus or iron.
lot of it was iron.
So I was wondering...[tape ended;
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I think a
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