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...years ago a San Francisco shipping executive heard the bad news from his doctors: he had chronic lymphatic leukemia. X-ray treatment might have slowed down the disease enough to give the patient ten or even 20 years of useful life, but doctors have done the job more easily with an occasional injection of colorless fluid containing phosphorus...
Another Lincoln patient is Tobey's daughter, Mrs. Louise Dean, who was treated for multiple sclerosis. Still another is Charles W. Tobey Jr., 41, who had an operation and X-ray treatment for cancer of lymph tissues before he tried Lincoln's tame viruses. Now he gives much or most of the credit for his improvement to the Lincoln treatment...
Since the X-ray process was expensive, Bushland is now experimenting at Oak Ridge with radioactive cobalt, a cheap source of sterilizing radiation. Soon he plans to go south and hatch clouds of flies out of washtubs full of hamburger. One pound of hamburger, he figures, is good for 500 flies...
...year-old heart patient who wanted God to take her was in the hands of a girl intern, who found she was also suffering from cancer of the breast. "I've got her on oxygen, digitalis and aminophyl-line," the intern said. "Later, I'll get X-ray consultation on the cancer. But I scarcely know what's keeping her alive...
...doctors reported widespread "TV tummy" among moppet televiewers. Early symptoms: closing of eyes at too-exciting moments and running out of the room "until the bad man isn't on the screen any more." Later symptoms: cramps and pains due to stomach spasms, often resulting in needless X-ray examinations for appendicitis...