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...enough health centers operating, with doctors practicing in groups, and it also wanted more pay and more hospital privileges for general practitioners. It urged a nominal charge (as little as 70? a week) for board & lodging in hospitals, and a token fee of 28? towards the cost of each X-ray film and each pair of spectacles...
...bomb project, Gardner worked at Oak Ridge and Los Alamos. As one colleague put it, his brain was "one of the nation's great natural resources." When he returned to Berkeley in 1945, his disease was well advanced. He complained of fatigue and shortness of breath. X-ray examination of his chest showed fibrosis in both lungs. But no one could tell the cause; no treatment did any good. He had hardly enough strength for laboratory desk work...
Children with impressively styled cap guns and bejeweled double holsters (many tied to their thighs to facilitate a fast draw) were so commonplace that those without them seemed a little underdressed, and those who still carried such outmoded armament as X-Ray Guns or Atomic Disintegrators, hopelessly oldfashioned. When firing, they sometimes seemed a little confused by their multi-programmed backgrounds; instead of just crying "Bang!" like older generation's, they imitated rockets and/or ricocheting bullets ("Ptche-e-e-e-e-e-w"), enormous steel springs ("Boing-oing-oing!"), or machine guns...
Clasby will continue to work out with the team, although the cast prohibits any accurate passing. X-ray pictures taken just before the Yale game will determine whether the bone has knitted sufficiently to allow him to play...
Nobody knew much about the dangers of overexposure to X rays when a young intern named Percy Emerson Brown set up the X-ray department at Boston Children's Hospital. The year was 1903 and the X ray was only seven years old. As Dr. Brown later wrote, "Enthusiasm was in the saddle, accoutered with the lance of investigation and the spurs of continued experimental revelation, but not yet with the shield and armor of protection...