Word: roentgen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...mouse cancer known as sarcoma 180. Then they injected into the tumors small amounts of sterile, distilled water several times a day for three to six days. Results: small doses of X-rays, when followed by water, produced an unusually strong effect. Large doses of over 1,000 Roentgen units, when followed by water, completely destroyed all the mouse tumors. When the scientists omitted the X-rays, tried only water, the cancer cells did not die-only the combination worked...
...Among startling unlocked for discoveries were X-rays, natural radioactivity, artificial radioactivity. X-rays caused such a furor among laymen after their discovery by Roentgen that the New Jersey Legislature introduced a law forbidding their use in opera glasses, for fear that prurient individuals would be able to see through the garments of ladies...
Those cases presenting tumors which are known to be radio-sensitive and in which the disease is not too widespread may be expected to show early improvement from Roentgen rays which have so great a potential...
Cancer Control. So eager was the U. S. medical profession to cooperate in this anti-cancer campaign that last week the four important U. S. organizations dealing with cancer-the American College of Surgeons, the American Roentgen Ray Society, the American Association for Cancer Research, and the American Society for the Control of Cancer-formed a Cancer Council, which will answer any reasonable question about cancer sent by doctor or layman to headquarters at No. 1250 Sixth Avenue, New York City. Members of this Cancer Council are: Dr. Frank E. Adair, Memorial Hospital, New York...
Physicist Robert Andrews Millikan, first man to isolate electrons, which generate x-rays, and then to count them one by one, was the chief speaker at the 37th annual meeting of the American Roentgen Ray Society in Cleveland last week. Dr. Millikan, who has a strong urge for evangelism acquired from his preacher father, stretched his advertised topic "High Energy Radiations and Their Uses" to declaim that "a democracy like ours cannot survive and war can never be eliminated unless we can learn to solve our social problems by the rational method." Less original but also instructive were the addresses...