Re: Life magazine RE: History of US
From: Daniel A Merton (Daniel.A.Merton@mail.tju.edu)
Mon Jan 29 09:56:22 2001
Hi Terry,
The magazine's Publisher is listed as Time, Inc. 540 N. Michigan Ave.,
Chicago, Il.
FYI we are talking about Volume 59, Number 11, We would want to scan the
cover and -for the whole article- pages 59-79 (but bear in mind- not all of
which deal w/ ultrasound).
Let me know if I can help- my copy is in very good condition- right down to
the original owners mail label! ha ha
The size of it (10.5" x 13.5") may pose a problem for scanning.
Dan
> From: DuboseTerryJ@uams.edu
> Reply-To: soundadvice@listbox.com
> Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2001 10:35:35 -0600
> To: soundadvice@listbox.com, tjdubose@juno.com
> Cc: ultrasound-history@forum.obgyn.net, admin@obgyn.net
> Subject: Life magazine RE: History of US
>
> Dan, thanks for the head's up on this article. I wonder if it would be
> possible to get permission to reprint the article on OBGYN.net? Dan, we
> may be calling upon you to scan the article... if possible. Who was the
> publisher of Life? Was it published in Philadelphia... I think so... by
> Curtis?
>
> It would be great to be able to post that article. Thanks.
>
> Terry J. DuBose, M.S., RDMS, Assistant Professor
> Director, Diagnostic Medical Sonography Program
> CHRP, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences
> Little Rock, Arkansas, USA
> 501-686-6510
> http://www.io.com/~dubose/
> http://www.uams.edu/CHRP/dmshome.htm
> http://www.obgyn.net/us/panel/panel.htm
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Daniel A Merton [mailto:Daniel.A.Merton@mail.tju.edu]
> Sent: Monday, January 29, 2001 1:11 PM
> To: soundadvice@listbox.com; tjdubose@juno.com
> Cc: ultrasound-history@forum.obgyn.net
> Subject: History of US
>
> Hi Terry, et al.
> Re; the OB/GYN history forum- have you ever seen the Sept. 10, 1965 issue of
> Life magazine? I found a copy in a used book store and have it (original
> cover price: 35 cents, present cost: $8). It has on the cover a woman
> receiving an OB US scan by a large water-bath type device with the caption:
> "Image of baby's head in womb is projected onto screen by ultrasonic waves
> transmitted through water-filled bag".
>
> There are a few other photos of early US equipment but the article (as
> indicated by the cover wording) had more to do with "Profound and
> Astonishing Biological Revolution - CONTROL OF LIFE - audacious experiments
> promise decades of added life, superbabies with improved minds and bodies,
> and even a kind of immortality" it was the first of a 4 part series.
>
> There are also reports (w/ pics) of doing fetal surgery (on monkeys- but it
> looks very much like a human fetus), and a technique that "...involves the
> use of a dye which makes parts of the fetus visible on x-rays.", and a photo
> taken at Albert Einstein MC in Phila. of a pregnant woman: "heat from a
> woman's body is reflected by mirror into device that converts it to a
> picture..." (ie; thermography) which was used to localize the placenta. The
> US photos were from Hahnemann Medical Coll. Phila. The text mentions:
> "Though all three of these approaches are still in varouis stages of
> research, they are already helping to cure ills and save lives." (how true)
>
> There were other interesting articles w/ insights into what was then new or
> would later become a reality in human medicine like IUD's and IVF.
>
> In case you are wondering: no mention of any specific radiologists or OB/GYN
> Dr.s
>
> DAM, Phila., PA
>
>> From: Terry J DuBose <tjdubose@juno.com>
>> Reply-To: soundadvice@listbox.com
>> Date: Sat, 27 Jan 2001 21:09:34 -0600
>> To: ultrasound-history@forum.obgyn.net, soundadvice@listbox.com,
>> GersonSL@aol.com, Sonar1951@aol.com
>> Cc: soundadvice@listbox.com
>> Subject: Re: Smithsonian 1988
>>
>> Folks, I am going to make another appeal that you CC these historical
>> comments to the new History of Ultrasound Forum, no matter how
>> insignificant you may think they are as to the history of ultrasound.
>>
>> Please CC any questions and recollections of early sonography to:
>> ultrasound-history@mail.medispecialty.com
>>
>> The above address must be the first one listed in either the CC or TO
>> space... as a method to screen out SPAM to the Forum.
>>
>> You can see the Forum at URL: http://forums.obgyn.net/ultrasound-history/
>>
>> This is a collaborative effort by the SDMS and OBGYN.net to archive the
>> recollections of those involved in the early days of Sonography. Your
>> help will be appreciated, and if these comments do not go into an
>> archived forum, then they will just go into cyber-dust. Please help us
>> preserve this history... your history!
>>
>> Now as to Kevin's question: "... what does your husband do or what did
>> he do that has to do with US." Don Baker was an engineer at the
>> University of Washington in Seattle and helped to develop the first
>> medical Doppler units... I think he was probably the prime mover and
>> shaker on that invention. It is a long story, and I do not know all the
>> details, but he eventually was one of three people (Don the engineer
>> behind it, a financier, and a business person) as I understand it. They
>> put ATL together as the first commercial medical duplex Doppler
>> Ultrasound unit. Hopefully, we will be able to get Joan and Don to
>> document their individual stories... and their story as man and wife...
>> on the History Forum.
>>
>> Don and Joan are two of the most important individuals to the development
>> of the profession of Ultrasound in the United States, and perhaps world
>> wide. There are many who have contributed, but all have not been
>> recognized for their bit. That is what this new History of Ultrasound
>> Forum is all about. Please help us by archiving your recollections of
>> how the early days of sonography came about...
>>
>> Thanks Terry J DuBose, M.S., RDMS
>> Little Rock, Arkansas, USA
>>
>>>> On Sat, 27 Jan 2001 20:01:12 EST Sonar1951@aol.com writes:
>>> Joan-
>>> I may be the only one that doesn't know, but what does your
>> husband do or what did he do that has to do with US. I am very curious,
>> you make it sound like he was in forefront of US technology.
>>>
>>> Kevin J. Brennan RT RDMS RDCS
>>> CT Surgical Group / Urology Div.
>>> Hartford, CT.
>>
>> llen, are you thinking of the ADR scanner? This was a separate company
>> that
>> later was bought by ATL.
>>
>> Aha, Joan!! It never struck me why you are so familiar with ATL history!
>> Many thanks to your husband for these powerful developments. I remember
>> reading the galley proofs of Dr. Liv Hatle and Bjorn Angelsen's first
>> book on the application of CW and PW to cardiology in 1980-81. When I
>> finished, my thought was that if 1/4 of what they said really worked, it
>> would be spectacular. Of course, much more of it worked and the rest is
>> history.
>>
>> The change that made that book so important was that they used the
>> formula that enabled us to estimate pressure gradients from the velocity
>> or frequency shift information. That modification of the Bernoulli
>> equation was performed by Dr. Jarle Holen, a remarkable (and
>> extraordinarily humble) man with a background in mechanical engineering
>> and fluid dynamics before he went to medical school. The story of how he
>> came to that is quite interesting itself, and, as with many great
>> developments somewhat accidental as he used to tell the story.
>>
>> Thanks, Kevin! I think you are right and that Bronson was part of the
>> name of that other scanner.
>>
>> Gerson S. Lichtenberg, RDCS, RDMS
>> Cardiology Department
>> Oak Park Hospital
>> Oak Park, Illinois
>>
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