"atomic cocktail" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1954 March 22, “Medicine: Atomic Diagnosis”, in Time, retrieved 2014-03-19:",
          "text": "For most patients, the old-fashioned basal metabolism test is a mild form of torture . . . and four Navy researchers have come to the conclusion that in big medical centers with facilities for handling radioisotopes it should be replaced by the \"atomic cocktail.\"",
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          "ref": "1998, Jerome Klinkowitz, Vonnegut in Fact: The Public Spokesmanship of Personal Fiction, →ISBN, page 73:",
          "text": "Lilienthal's speech to the scientists at G.E. revelled in possibilities for atomic measurement and medicine, especially how a man dying of a huge throat tumor was treated with an atomic cocktail, causing the tumor to disappear completely in a matter of days.",
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          "text": "The test showed excessive hormone, so the doctor prescribed an “atomic cocktail,” a radioactive iodine mixture designed to partially kill the thyroid gland.",
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          "ref": "2010, R Alan Smith, Our Eyes Are on You, →ISBN, page 148:",
          "text": "I was at Good Samaritan Hospital in Los Angeles for a radioactive iodine scan, this one at diagnostic levels—less radiation than the therapeutic levels I would eventually endure. I drank my first atomic cocktail: a vial of liquid radioactive iodine diluted in what seemed like gallons of water.",
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          "text": "Its most famous drink is the atomic cocktail—vodka, brandy, Champagne, splash of sherry."
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