Technetium-99m, after i. v. administration, is found to be localized in the gastric mucosa, and is subsequently excreted with the stomach juice. Owing to the favorable physical properties of 99mTc, satisfactory scans of the stomach can be made. The presence of neoplasms is shown as areas of lower density of scans. No alcerations or inflammatory processes, however, can be visualized with this method. The technique of obtaining 99mTc and the scanning procedure are presented.
Here is a story told by Maria Skłodowska-Curie at the meeting of the International Committee of Intellectual Cooperation in 1921: "In a free literary competition on the role and importance of elephants the Englishman's story was «My adventures while shooting elephants in South Africa», the Frenchman was more concerned with «The sexual and erotic life of elephants», while the Polish approach was invariably «The elephant versus Poland's national independence»", which seemed quite understandable in the light of over 120 years when Poland was partitioned and lost its independence. Since then this saying has become proverbial and came to express the unmistakably Polish tendency to see everything in terms of Polish interests. In my remarks and reminiscences on the history of the Polish Society of Medical Physics you will quickly recognize the same tendency… First, I will, among other things, try to open some old cupboards to "produce good [things] from the store of good" (Matthew 12:35), especially concerning the first few years of the activity in medical physics in Poland, and second, I will draw some conclusions and/or offer suggestions based on what a senior medical physicist has seen for more than 50 years of his activity in this field. I have always wondered what medicine was like in Russia, and consequently on Polish territories partitioned by Tsarist Russia, in those years between 1840 and 1860 at a time when my great-grandfather was a senior physician in the Russian army. Couldn't we find any attempt among medical profession at that time and at that place that aimed at combining medicine with physics or chemistry? In one of the old book stores I came across an intriguing book Fizyka lekarska-Die Physik in der Medizin, written by Hoh Theodor, published in Stuttgart 1875 and translated by Dr Aleksander Fabian from Dąbrowa Górnicza, published and printed by Drukarnia Gazety Lekarskiej (Medical Gazette Printing House) in Warszawa in 1880.
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