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Doctors have known for 15 years that irradiating the blood with invisible ultraviolet rays helps in some diseases, notably blood poisoning. Three years ago Drs. Valinta P. Wasson, George P. Miley and Preston M. Dunning of the New York Infirmary decided to use the technique on children with acute rheumatic heart disease. Last week they reported success in 22 consecutive cases...
...minutes each time it was done. The doctors drew an amount of blood depending on the child's weight (1.5 cubic centimeters for each pound), added citrate to prevent clotting, fed it into a machine called a Knott Hemo-Irradiator that exposes the blood to ultraviolet light. Then the blood was returned to the child's arm through the same needle...
More specific treatments, which are sometimes effective but should be overseen by a competent doctor, are glandular extracts, vitamin A, drying lotions for the skin, X rays and ultraviolet lamps...
Beautiful Promise. But, wrote Ansermet, Stravinsky and Twelve-Toner Arnold Schönberg had added two bands of color to the spectrum of western music, "ultraviolet and infra-red." Among other hopefuls, "Alban Berg [TIME, May 31] has written pages of overwhelming beauty. The hour of Berg will come . . . Bartok is a symbol of our times. He is one of those who search groaningly, even though he may appear to be smiling. His last works are the most beautiful promise that modern music has offered...
Rocket-borne cameras photographed the great round earth far below. Others took spectrograms of the sun's ultraviolet radiation. Samples of the thin, peculiar air near the top of the atmosphere were captured for analysis. Cosmic rays were counted and measured while still fresh from space. Some rockets shot out puffs of smoke, so that observers could measure high-altitude winds by the drift...