Word: rayed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...everyone at busy Bellevue must be, told the girl to turn on her side for another view of her insides. As he slid a second cassette under her with his right hand, with his left he started to push the tube into position. Then the accident happened which X-ray operators fear more than the sterilization which their profession makes practically inevitable...
Brown's right hand froze to the metal cassette and table. He had neglected to turn off the supply of electricity, and 75,000 volts, 37 times as powerful as prison executioners use in electric chairs, poured through him. Electric chairs use five amperes of electricity, X-ray machines only one-tenth of an ampere, and although that small unit rushed through him like straws blown by a tornado, sturdy Frank Brown had strength enough to haul his stiffened left hand away from the X-ray tube to tug at his right hand frozen to the metal. The current...
Young Patient Martha Berger sniffed, screamed, rolled off the table, scrambled from the room. Mrs. Grace Fusco, 48, X-ray assistant, whose back had been turned, noticed the commotion, grabbed Frank Brown's arm to pull him from the grip of the electricity. The 75,000 volts knocked her across the room. She staggered back for another tug. The man thought he shook his head to warn her away. But his muscles were too tense to do that. Mrs. Fusco saw only his popping eyes, grabbed again, was again knocked away...
...this time young Martha Berger, wondering if all this were part of the routine of taking X-ray pictures, put her head through the door. She was just in time to see Mrs. Fusco knocked down for a third time. The girl's screams summoned a man who turned off the current which then let Frank Brown fall unconscious to the floor...
...Ralph Walter Graystone Wyckoff, a Rockefeller biophysicist, uses a squeeze-press, an ultracentrifuge (TIME, Feb. 6, 1933), and an X-ray analyzer of crystalline substances. The press enables him to get juices from infected tissue without modifying ingredients in the slightest. The ultracentrifuge, whirling at 50,000 revolutions per minute, separates the ingredients into layers, including one of pure crystalline virus. X-rays prove that this virus, obtained by physical means, is exactly the same as the virus which Dr. Stanley obtained by chemical means...