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...President; he had kept Senora Quezon in Manila from worrying by entering the hospital under the name of Pedro Lopez; he had tormented the billion-dollar American Telephone & Telegraph Co. by attempting to charge to unaccredited "Pedro Lopez" $300 telephone calls to Senora Quezon. And above all, Urologist Hugh Hampton Young had just removed from the left Quezon ureter a good-sized stone shaped like Senor Quezon's middle initial...
Ordinary x-ray pictures, taken after the patient has eaten a paste of barium sulphate, show only the outline of the stomach. A method of outlining all the rugae occurred to a few roentgenologists. notably to Dr. Aubrey Otis Hampton, 34, a sharp-nosed Texan who went to Boston to practice medicine. Last week he explained the method to other fellows of the American College of Surgeons (see p. 35) who crowded his lecture in Boston...
...barium sulphate in thick cream and a moment later has him rub his belly. This kneads the stomach and spreads the barium cream evenly into all the wrinkles, leaving their ridges bare and transparent to x-rays. The roentgenogram appears striped. Every deflected stripe indicates potentially serious trouble. Dr. Hampton now is trying to adapt the same method to showing the haustra, or tucks, of the colon which often churn up disease...
Most precious use so far for the Hampton technique is to discern an ulcer at the pyloric end of the stomach. That is the stomach's most active spot. Ulcers there, declares Director George Hoyt Bigelow of Massachusetts General Hospital, invariably turn into cancers. As with all cancers, if the surgeon can recognize them in their early stages, he can destroy them before they destroy his patient. Director Bigelow told the surgeons in Boston last week that his staff surgeons, by operating quickly, have prevented cancers in practically every pyloric ulcer Dr. Hampton has photographed for them...
...citizen of Hankinson, S. C. wanted to know how Hampton Pitts Fulmer, his Representative at Washington, voted on the major measures of the New Deal, he would probably have to go to a good deal of bother. What he or any other citizen of the U. S. could not do until this week was to send 5? to a Manhattan address and receive the New Deal votes of all 96 Senators, all 435 Representatives...