Word: radiumator
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...advantages of loud, clear medical advice were learned last week by Dr. Frederick William Haskell McKee of Manhattan's Park Ave. He strapped $2,300-worth of radium in three narrow, inch-long tubes to a woman patient's leg (to treat a small cancer) and told her to go to his office rest room. She misunderstood him and went to the hairdressers' instead...
...frantic doctor tried to find her, partly to save his precious radium but mostly to prevent the lady from getting radium burns. Presently the patient phoned to report that her little bandage had "come loose" (she had not been overexposed). It had disappeared into the hairdresser's plumbing, 19 floors up in a Madison Avenue skyscraper...
...waves (now accomplished by the cathode-ray oscilloscope), television (his friends credit him with coining the word). In one of Gernsback's first science fiction stories (1911), a character futuristically named Ralph 1240 41+ drained a dog's blood, filled its veins with a mythical preservative called "Radium-K bromide" and three years later restored the dog to life by pumping blood back-a fantasy which Gernsback claims has been fully validated by recent Soviet dog-reviving experiments (TIME, Nov. 22). In Gernsback's view, mankind's abolition of death is only a question of time...
...lucky few can have gland and cancer completely removed. But all that can be done for most patients is to try to make them comfortable and prolong their lives by 1) operations, X-ray or radium treatments; 2) morphine and other pain-killing drugs...
...through the town, taking Geiger-Müller soundings in doctors', nurses' and patients' homes, the city dumps, the city hog farm, the sewers. The hospital staff began to think up desperately ingenious tactics. New manholes were opened, miles of sewer explored. Since water screens radium rays, the searchers debated draining the sewers or dragging sensitive film enclosed in a rubber hose through the water...