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...been about 5% of the dose the average person receives from natural radioactivity. It's probably less than 5% of the dose delivered to the average person as the result of the improper use of X rays. It would be relatively simple for our physicians to improve their X-ray techniques, and thus reduce exposure by a much larger amount...
Temporary relief can be stretched a long way. Dr. Karnofsky cited the case of a patient with cancer of the large bowel. A colostomy relieved an intestinal obstruction. A recurrence of cancer nearby was relieved by X-ray treatment. When the abdominal cavity began to fill with fluid, radioactive phosphorus checked the process. Bronchopneumonia was cured by an antibiotic. Cancer spread to the liver, and again X-rays were used. As liver function progressively declined, many medical measures supported the patient. If some of these treatments had been withheld, said Dr. Karnofsky, the patient would have died within weeks...
...President's back continued to plague him throughout his trip to Europe, but he concealed his discomfort. Back in the U.S., he took further treatment, underwent X-ray examinations, went on crutches again...
Students work in both the city's medical and mental institutions. At Holy Ghost, City, and Mt. Auburn Hospitals they do ward chores, help with rehabilitative therapy and, in short, do everything from scrubbing pots to learning X-ray technology...
...revive the spiritual past, the scholars use modern tools of science. Housed in a new wing of the 900-year-old monastery will be a chemical laboratory, tape recorders, electric typewriters, X-ray and microfilm equipment. On the staff are eight Beuron monks and eight laymen, including two Protestants...