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Under six-month guarantees the faulty sternposts in four cruisers will be made good by the contractors. Cost: $20,000 each. The Navy borrowed half a gram of radium from Johns Hopkins University to discover the flaws. Capable of penetrating 16 in. armor plate, the radium's gammarays were used to photograph the rudder castings much as a dentist x-rays a tooth. Flaws or pockets in the steel showed as distinct blotches in the finished pictures...
Miscellany. And then there were a great number of miscellaneous items: nasal sinuses displayed by Warren Beagle Davis of Philadelphia. Harrison Stanford Martland of Newark's pieces of radium-rotted bones. How mites which live on rats transmit typhus fever, by Jesse Bedford Shelmire Jr. and Walter E. Dove of Dallas. The description by Fred DeForest Weidman of Philadelphia of the skin infection technically called dermatophytosis, popularly ringworm, and in certain advertisements "athlete's foot." Xanthomatosis, which makes children look like frogs, squatty and popeyed, and which Merrill Clary Sosman of Harvard found X-rays will relieve and sometimes cure...
...their cancer extract kept away from New York. They are positive that the Californians have no scientific foundation for their work and claims. They fear that the hope of a Coffey-Humber cancer cure will persuade the cancerous to abandon the orthodox treatment of surgery, X-rays and radium. To support his arguments he had present the presidents of every county medical society in and adjacent to New York City. In addition...
...measuring electrons bound in atoms. An older method measures velocities of free electrons by use of an electric field, a magnetic field and a fluorescent screen.* Such methods disclose that some electrons move as slowly as 1% (within beryllium) the speed of light and others as swiftly as 90% (radium's Beta particles) light's speed. Light is known to travel (until Professor Albert Abraham Michelson, who last week was in a serious nervous collapse at Pasadena, figures it more accurately...
...year cautiously announced that they were alleviating hopeless cases of cancer by means of adrenal cortex extract derived from sheep. The Hearst press recognized the kernel of news in this announcement and puffed it so that thousands of cancer victims abandoned the orthodox treatment of surgery, X-rays and radium, rushed for the sure-cure...