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...camps is Augustdorf, in Westphalia. Nearly a quarter of the 1,800 people there have tuberculosis; 180 of the children are illegitimate. A spot on a lung in Augustdorf, as in the other camps, is a standard blackball against emigration; there is a black market in X-ray plates of healthy lungs...
...wife and four children: Olga, now 19; Roman, 18; Irena, 16; and Eugenia, 15. Recently he got an offer to move to the U.S. to work on a tobacco farm near Buffalo. The family packed and got set to go. Then pale Olga pressed her flat chest against the X-ray plate: a spot on one lung-active TB. Ineligible...
...British Museum in London, Dr. T. C. Skeat studied the X-ray pictures and agreed that "Diana" had probably been murdered, had certainly been misnamed. Skeat retranslated the inked inscription on the mummy's chest wrappings, announced that the boy's name was Panechates, son of Hatres. Undoubtedly of noble birth, the unlucky child may have been liquidated by an ambitious rival. Burial took place some time in the 3rd century...
...Most radiologists believe it beneath their dignity to treat corns. That, says Dr. Sydney J. Hawley of Seattle, is a mistake: one X-ray treatment will usually remove a corn, and it will not grow back for a year or more...
...experts began with a painstaking study of the painting's twelve panels with microscope and X-ray photographs. Then they impregnated the surface with beeswax, and flattened out blisters with warmed spatulas. With mild solvents, they removed centuries of varnish (sometimes twelve layers deep) and retouchings, and they scrupulously avoided doing any retouching of their...