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...extra dollar for the first four home calls, an extra $25 for obstetrical care, 50? a month for infant care. Benefits include medical examinations, complete medical and surgical care, "preventive care," laboratory tests, X-ray study. Not included: hospital service, medicines, nursing, medical appliances, treatment for alcoholics, radium for cancer. Subscribers who wish cheap hospital care can also join Boston's "3? a day" Associated Hospital Service, an independent organization...
...soon as war began, all precious radium supplies were sunk in shafts 60 feet deep, widely scattered throughout the country...
Said she: "Unhealthy conditions, such as ulceration or inflammation which might lead to cancer, were found in about 25% of the volunteers. . . . Thus far, unsuspected early cancer has been found in four of the volunteers. These women have received adequate treatment, by operation . . . radium and Xray. I believe three of these women will be permanently cured. I am not so sure about the fourth...
...contemporary periodicals have had such an exciting career as McClure's Magazine. It launched the muckraking movement, first printed O. Henry and Willa Gather, popularized Stevenson, Kipling, Conan Doyle in the U. S., published the first magazine articles on the Xray, radium, Marconi's wireless, the Wrights' flying machine, paved the way for modern, big-circulation magazines...
Harlow Shapley, Paine Professor of Practical Astronomy and Director of the Harvard Observatory, will set an chairman of a scientific conference to be held today in Washington, D. C. on the question of "Princeton Measurement of Solar Radium...