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...applying his electrodes to five* points on their bodies. He also studied 80 normal people. The difference between the amount of electricity produced by normal people and by schizophrenics was startling. Readings from the schizophrenics were very high, averaging around 65 microvolts (a microvolt is one-thousandth of a volt); normal people never sent the readings higher than about eleven microvolts. As the insane patients improved under treatment, their electrical readings fell closer & closer to normal. But if they stayed sick, their electrical marks stayed high...
Physicists at Berkeley, said Thornton, had shot high energy (100,000,000 electron-volt) neutrons and protons through carbon and other elements. Knowing the size and number of the nuclei, they could calculate how many particles should pass through the material without hitting any nuclei. More came through than the calculations had allowed for, and with hardly any loss of energy-indicating that the nuclei are not nearly so solid as supposed. It was enough to make nonscientists nervous...
...General Electric's 100-million-volt betatron is not comparable, because it shoots much lighter particles (electrons...
...Near Henderson, Colo., a truck driver named Margorito Gomez ran into a pole that carried a 13,000-volt power line. Within seconds, five nearby farm houses caught fire, the local telephone exchange was knocked out, a bull was electrocuted, and all the electric water pumps in the area stopped pumping. At home, Gomez explained: "I'm subject to fainting spells...
Soon other cases turned up. Friedman treated them with the hospital's 1,000,000-volt X-ray machine, "Big Bertha," found that he could arrest their cancers if he adjusted the X-ray dose to the contents of the tumor, i.e., one dose for bone, another for lung, etc. All told, he treated 256 G.I.s with cancer of the testes, got a high percentage of improvement...