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Eastman Kodak, which has not yet determined the selling price of the 32x72 in. films necessary for such a full-length radiograph, claims that it will be useful for taking a picture of all the broken and dislocated bones of an accident victim with a minimum of discomfort. Such pictures might also show all secondary cancers in an individual and the full extent of rickets. Students of anatomy and physiology could use such complete radiographs to study the varying relations of bones and organs to posture...
...criminal activities started some two weeks ago when the student's room was the objective of a fusillade of bullets which pierced three window panes, much to the mental and monetary discomfort of the occupant. The act was attributed to one of the numerous urchins living in the vicinity, and in the general scurry over divisionals was soon forgotten...
...Philadelphia's Hahnemann Hospital, where physicians at first thought his left kidney might be displaced. Then an x-ray showed a growth in his stomach. But on an x-ray plate exposed a week later the growth had disappeared. The physicians were stumped. As may any prolonged internal discomfort, Henry Harrington's pains might indicate cancer. But with x-ray there was no way to tell until the cancer should attain a considerable mass. Last week Dr. John Falenks of Manhattan went to the physicians' aid with something new to the U. S. Named "Gastro-Photo...
...such patient, remote researches grows the body of knowledge which another Koch or Pasteur may some day synthesize into a cancer cure. In the meantime, cried Mayo Clinic's Dr. William Carpenter MacCarty in Toronto last week, let the world beware of any prolonged stomach ache or internal discomfort, no matter how slight. Said he: "It's a great mistake for people to think that cancer in its earliest stages produces any of the signs of severe illness. People should be warned to have examinations of internal ailments when there is still a chance for recovery...
...knife. . . . The death of a Turkish bridge or rail, machine or gun, or high explosive was more profitable to us than the death of a Turk. . . . We could not afford casualties. . . . Our ideal was to keep his railways just working, but only just, with the maximum of loss and discomfort to him. . . . We used the smallest force in the quickest time at the farthest place...