Word: raying
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Traffic. From the patient on the operating table are leads to an electrocardiograph that projects tracings on a wall screen. Also projected are lines showing the pulse, the heart sounds, and the pressure in each side of the heart. Attached to the table is an X-ray machine that will photograph the heart and major blood vessels after opaque dye is injected into the bloodstream. The surgeon can order these projected on a giant screen within minutes after an exposure in order to keep a running check on the effects of the operation...
Cecil Hartley gave his offspring two names, Daniel Kaye for the partner on the right, and Donald Ray for the one on the left. Clergymen in Indianapolis told reporters that with two brains and two hearts it must have two personalities and therefore should have double baptism. Meanwhile, doctors at Riley Hospital concentrated on keeping it alive, using oxygen because the right-hand member has poor circulation. This side also has a harelip and a poorer appetite. Surgery, such as separated the Brodie twins, appears impossible because there is only one set of organs below the chest...
...scientists now produce new cheeses with the flick of an ultraviolet-ray machine? Cautioned the University of Wisconsin's Dr. William Hendrickson: "The chances are one in a million that you'd hit it right if you started out to create a new starting material for cheese." His conclusion: Knight, like the shepherd boy, was "darn lucky...
Inside Picture. Westinghouse Electric Corp. put on sale a fluoroscopic television set that can show an X-ray image 200 times brighter than any TV set ever used for the same purpose before. Thus, it can be used to study internal organs and bone joints in action as patients walk about. Price...
...Anderson Hos pital for Cancer Research posed a tougher problem for the social workers than for the doctors. She had cancer of the cervix. She was hundreds of miles from home, and needed a place near by to live for three months while she took regular X-ray treatments as an outpatient. Mrs. Edna Wagner, tireless and efficient director of social service at Anderson Hospital, shook her head: there was no suitable housing for such a patient in segregated Houston. But the woman had a son living in the city. Against her own better judgment, Mrs. Wagner told the patient...