PORTER -- Mr. and Mrs. Roy Zane have moved to Valparaiso. Mr. and Mrs. Zane have been in Porter a great many years. Their friends wish them much happiness in the new home.
Published in the Vidette-Messenger of Porter County (Valparaiso, IN), on Friday, February 27, 1931, pg. 4.
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PMH Patient Treated With
By-Product From Oak Ridge
The case of Roy Zane, Chesterton rural route 2, a recent patient at Porter Memorial hospital, has brought the atomic age and its significance home to Porter county.
Zane, a railroad employee until hospitalized by a rare blood disease, has returned to his home, apparently cured by a single treatment with a by-product from the Oak Ridge, Tenn., atomic energy plant.
Zane's illness, from which he suffered for about two years, had been diagnosed as polycythemia vera, a disease of the blood involving excessive manufacture of red cells by the bone marrow. Its cause is not known; its effects are chronic weakness and severe headaches. Treatment previously had been limited to deep therapy of the long bones with X-ray, with temporary relief obtained by taking excess blood from the patient. The therapy in Zane's case was not successful.
Taken to Chicago
Through the efforts of Rex Von Krohn, Porter Memorial hospital administrator, Zane was accepted as a patient at the University of Chicago clinic by Dr. Paul C. Hodges, director of the atomic energy program there. Attended by Dr. Leon Jacobsen, the Porter county man was treated with six "millicuries" of radio-active "phosphorous 32" obtained from Oak Ridge.
(According to the best information available powdered phosphorous is made radio-active by placing it in a cyclotron where it is bombarded with protons.)
In Zane's case it was necessary for the patient to go to the medicine, so delicate is the phosphorous 32. The dosage is measured with a Geiger counter, and because of the difficulties involved in calibrating the amount to be given a patient along with the transportation and handling of the radio-active substance, Zane was taken to the University of Chicago clinic.
After a single injection of phosphorous 32, Zane was kept at the clinic a short period for observation. On his return to Porter Memorial hospital, a routine check of his blood count revealed that the remarkable radio-active phosphorous had already had its effect and that the patient was enjoying a near-normal blood condition.
Zane, whose case is unique in PMH records, was released from the institution shortly after his return from Chicago.
Asked how he felt, the north county man replied, "I feel swell, just swell. I think I could go back to work right now. They're certainly doing some wonderful things with that atom plant these days, aren't they?"
They certainly are, Roy.
Article published in the Vidette-Messenger of Porter County (Valparaiso, IN), on Tuesday, June 15, 1948, pgs. 1 and 3.
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BENJAMIN ZANE
CHESTERTON -- Benjamin Leroy Zane, 74, of 402 1/2 West Indiana, died at 6:30 p.m., Monday in Porter Memorial hospital after a six-month illness.
He was a custodian at First Methodist church.
Born in Valparaiso, Oct. 29, 1883, he married Alma Dellenback on April 9, 1942, in Valparaiso.
Surviving are his widow; a son, Clyde of Chesterton; a daughter, Mrs. Paul Wilson of Palo Alto, Calif.; a brother, Charles of Porter; four sisters, Mrs. Ella Milton and Mrs. Barney Mosher of Aurora, Ill., Mrs. Arthur Swanson and Mrs. Harry Erler of Valparaiso; eight grandchildren four great-grandchildren.
Services will be held at 2 p.m., Thursday at White Funeral home. The Rev. Robert Mayfield, Assembly of God church, will officiate, and burial will be in Chesterton cemetery.
Friends may call at the funeral home from 2 p.m., Wednesday until services.
Obituary published in the Vidette-Messenger of Porter County (Valparaiso, IN), on Tuesday, March 19, 1957, pg. 6.
*Thanks to Find-a-Grave contributor, Ron Kyes #47122500 for sharing the articles with me.*
Published in the Vidette-Messenger of Porter County (Valparaiso, IN), on Friday, February 27, 1931, pg. 4.
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PMH Patient Treated With
By-Product From Oak Ridge
The case of Roy Zane, Chesterton rural route 2, a recent patient at Porter Memorial hospital, has brought the atomic age and its significance home to Porter county.
Zane, a railroad employee until hospitalized by a rare blood disease, has returned to his home, apparently cured by a single treatment with a by-product from the Oak Ridge, Tenn., atomic energy plant.
Zane's illness, from which he suffered for about two years, had been diagnosed as polycythemia vera, a disease of the blood involving excessive manufacture of red cells by the bone marrow. Its cause is not known; its effects are chronic weakness and severe headaches. Treatment previously had been limited to deep therapy of the long bones with X-ray, with temporary relief obtained by taking excess blood from the patient. The therapy in Zane's case was not successful.
Taken to Chicago
Through the efforts of Rex Von Krohn, Porter Memorial hospital administrator, Zane was accepted as a patient at the University of Chicago clinic by Dr. Paul C. Hodges, director of the atomic energy program there. Attended by Dr. Leon Jacobsen, the Porter county man was treated with six "millicuries" of radio-active "phosphorous 32" obtained from Oak Ridge.
(According to the best information available powdered phosphorous is made radio-active by placing it in a cyclotron where it is bombarded with protons.)
In Zane's case it was necessary for the patient to go to the medicine, so delicate is the phosphorous 32. The dosage is measured with a Geiger counter, and because of the difficulties involved in calibrating the amount to be given a patient along with the transportation and handling of the radio-active substance, Zane was taken to the University of Chicago clinic.
After a single injection of phosphorous 32, Zane was kept at the clinic a short period for observation. On his return to Porter Memorial hospital, a routine check of his blood count revealed that the remarkable radio-active phosphorous had already had its effect and that the patient was enjoying a near-normal blood condition.
Zane, whose case is unique in PMH records, was released from the institution shortly after his return from Chicago.
Asked how he felt, the north county man replied, "I feel swell, just swell. I think I could go back to work right now. They're certainly doing some wonderful things with that atom plant these days, aren't they?"
They certainly are, Roy.
Article published in the Vidette-Messenger of Porter County (Valparaiso, IN), on Tuesday, June 15, 1948, pgs. 1 and 3.
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BENJAMIN ZANE
CHESTERTON -- Benjamin Leroy Zane, 74, of 402 1/2 West Indiana, died at 6:30 p.m., Monday in Porter Memorial hospital after a six-month illness.
He was a custodian at First Methodist church.
Born in Valparaiso, Oct. 29, 1883, he married Alma Dellenback on April 9, 1942, in Valparaiso.
Surviving are his widow; a son, Clyde of Chesterton; a daughter, Mrs. Paul Wilson of Palo Alto, Calif.; a brother, Charles of Porter; four sisters, Mrs. Ella Milton and Mrs. Barney Mosher of Aurora, Ill., Mrs. Arthur Swanson and Mrs. Harry Erler of Valparaiso; eight grandchildren four great-grandchildren.
Services will be held at 2 p.m., Thursday at White Funeral home. The Rev. Robert Mayfield, Assembly of God church, will officiate, and burial will be in Chesterton cemetery.
Friends may call at the funeral home from 2 p.m., Wednesday until services.
Obituary published in the Vidette-Messenger of Porter County (Valparaiso, IN), on Tuesday, March 19, 1957, pg. 6.
*Thanks to Find-a-Grave contributor, Ron Kyes #47122500 for sharing the articles with me.*
PORTER -- Mr. and Mrs. Roy Zane have moved to Valparaiso. Mr. and Mrs. Zane have been in Porter a great many years. Their friends wish them much happiness in the new home.
Published in the Vidette-Messenger of Porter County (Valparaiso, IN), on Friday, February 27, 1931, pg. 4.
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PMH Patient Treated With
By-Product From Oak Ridge
The case of Roy Zane, Chesterton rural route 2, a recent patient at Porter Memorial hospital, has brought the atomic age and its significance home to Porter county.
Zane, a railroad employee until hospitalized by a rare blood disease, has returned to his home, apparently cured by a single treatment with a by-product from the Oak Ridge, Tenn., atomic energy plant.
Zane's illness, from which he suffered for about two years, had been diagnosed as polycythemia vera, a disease of the blood involving excessive manufacture of red cells by the bone marrow. Its cause is not known; its effects are chronic weakness and severe headaches. Treatment previously had been limited to deep therapy of the long bones with X-ray, with temporary relief obtained by taking excess blood from the patient. The therapy in Zane's case was not successful.
Taken to Chicago
Through the efforts of Rex Von Krohn, Porter Memorial hospital administrator, Zane was accepted as a patient at the University of Chicago clinic by Dr. Paul C. Hodges, director of the atomic energy program there. Attended by Dr. Leon Jacobsen, the Porter county man was treated with six "millicuries" of radio-active "phosphorous 32" obtained from Oak Ridge.
(According to the best information available powdered phosphorous is made radio-active by placing it in a cyclotron where it is bombarded with protons.)
In Zane's case it was necessary for the patient to go to the medicine, so delicate is the phosphorous 32. The dosage is measured with a Geiger counter, and because of the difficulties involved in calibrating the amount to be given a patient along with the transportation and handling of the radio-active substance, Zane was taken to the University of Chicago clinic.
After a single injection of phosphorous 32, Zane was kept at the clinic a short period for observation. On his return to Porter Memorial hospital, a routine check of his blood count revealed that the remarkable radio-active phosphorous had already had its effect and that the patient was enjoying a near-normal blood condition.
Zane, whose case is unique in PMH records, was released from the institution shortly after his return from Chicago.
Asked how he felt, the north county man replied, "I feel swell, just swell. I think I could go back to work right now. They're certainly doing some wonderful things with that atom plant these days, aren't they?"
They certainly are, Roy.
Article published in the Vidette-Messenger of Porter County (Valparaiso, IN), on Tuesday, June 15, 1948, pgs. 1 and 3.
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BENJAMIN ZANE
CHESTERTON -- Benjamin Leroy Zane, 74, of 402 1/2 West Indiana, died at 6:30 p.m., Monday in Porter Memorial hospital after a six-month illness.
He was a custodian at First Methodist church.
Born in Valparaiso, Oct. 29, 1883, he married Alma Dellenback on April 9, 1942, in Valparaiso.
Surviving are his widow; a son, Clyde of Chesterton; a daughter, Mrs. Paul Wilson of Palo Alto, Calif.; a brother, Charles of Porter; four sisters, Mrs. Ella Milton and Mrs. Barney Mosher of Aurora, Ill., Mrs. Arthur Swanson and Mrs. Harry Erler of Valparaiso; eight grandchildren four great-grandchildren.
Services will be held at 2 p.m., Thursday at White Funeral home. The Rev. Robert Mayfield, Assembly of God church, will officiate, and burial will be in Chesterton cemetery.
Friends may call at the funeral home from 2 p.m., Wednesday until services.
Obituary published in the Vidette-Messenger of Porter County (Valparaiso, IN), on Tuesday, March 19, 1957, pg. 6.
*Thanks to Find-a-Grave contributor, Ron Kyes #47122500 for sharing the articles with me.*
Published in the Vidette-Messenger of Porter County (Valparaiso, IN), on Friday, February 27, 1931, pg. 4.
~~~
PMH Patient Treated With
By-Product From Oak Ridge
The case of Roy Zane, Chesterton rural route 2, a recent patient at Porter Memorial hospital, has brought the atomic age and its significance home to Porter county.
Zane, a railroad employee until hospitalized by a rare blood disease, has returned to his home, apparently cured by a single treatment with a by-product from the Oak Ridge, Tenn., atomic energy plant.
Zane's illness, from which he suffered for about two years, had been diagnosed as polycythemia vera, a disease of the blood involving excessive manufacture of red cells by the bone marrow. Its cause is not known; its effects are chronic weakness and severe headaches. Treatment previously had been limited to deep therapy of the long bones with X-ray, with temporary relief obtained by taking excess blood from the patient. The therapy in Zane's case was not successful.
Taken to Chicago
Through the efforts of Rex Von Krohn, Porter Memorial hospital administrator, Zane was accepted as a patient at the University of Chicago clinic by Dr. Paul C. Hodges, director of the atomic energy program there. Attended by Dr. Leon Jacobsen, the Porter county man was treated with six "millicuries" of radio-active "phosphorous 32" obtained from Oak Ridge.
(According to the best information available powdered phosphorous is made radio-active by placing it in a cyclotron where it is bombarded with protons.)
In Zane's case it was necessary for the patient to go to the medicine, so delicate is the phosphorous 32. The dosage is measured with a Geiger counter, and because of the difficulties involved in calibrating the amount to be given a patient along with the transportation and handling of the radio-active substance, Zane was taken to the University of Chicago clinic.
After a single injection of phosphorous 32, Zane was kept at the clinic a short period for observation. On his return to Porter Memorial hospital, a routine check of his blood count revealed that the remarkable radio-active phosphorous had already had its effect and that the patient was enjoying a near-normal blood condition.
Zane, whose case is unique in PMH records, was released from the institution shortly after his return from Chicago.
Asked how he felt, the north county man replied, "I feel swell, just swell. I think I could go back to work right now. They're certainly doing some wonderful things with that atom plant these days, aren't they?"
They certainly are, Roy.
Article published in the Vidette-Messenger of Porter County (Valparaiso, IN), on Tuesday, June 15, 1948, pgs. 1 and 3.
~~~~
BENJAMIN ZANE
CHESTERTON -- Benjamin Leroy Zane, 74, of 402 1/2 West Indiana, died at 6:30 p.m., Monday in Porter Memorial hospital after a six-month illness.
He was a custodian at First Methodist church.
Born in Valparaiso, Oct. 29, 1883, he married Alma Dellenback on April 9, 1942, in Valparaiso.
Surviving are his widow; a son, Clyde of Chesterton; a daughter, Mrs. Paul Wilson of Palo Alto, Calif.; a brother, Charles of Porter; four sisters, Mrs. Ella Milton and Mrs. Barney Mosher of Aurora, Ill., Mrs. Arthur Swanson and Mrs. Harry Erler of Valparaiso; eight grandchildren four great-grandchildren.
Services will be held at 2 p.m., Thursday at White Funeral home. The Rev. Robert Mayfield, Assembly of God church, will officiate, and burial will be in Chesterton cemetery.
Friends may call at the funeral home from 2 p.m., Wednesday until services.
Obituary published in the Vidette-Messenger of Porter County (Valparaiso, IN), on Tuesday, March 19, 1957, pg. 6.
*Thanks to Find-a-Grave contributor, Ron Kyes #47122500 for sharing the articles with me.*
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LEROY
OCT. 29, 1882
MAR. 18, 1957
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