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...origin of diseases, a Washington orthopedist rattled some old bones last week. Exhibited to the District of Columbia Medical Society was a collection of human bones culled with care from the Smithsonian Institution's vast collection by Orthopedist William J. Tobin. Beside each bone was an X-ray diagnosis of what ailed the long-dead patient...
...MacDonald's shelter was designed and supervised by tall, greying Allan A. Eccles, an X-ray expert in Vancouver. Working with information from the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission and the U.S. Office of the Surgeon General, Eccles built the shelter in ten days, and says it is "calculated to afford protection against blast, flash and gamma radiation within a reasonable distance of ground zero of an atomic bomb burst." Although Eccles does not plan to go into the business, he is willing to make his specifications available to contractors if the government approves Mrs. MacDonald's shelter. Eccles...
Many a U.S. citizen fumed and sputtered last week when he read that a Milwaukee doctor was hauling down $1,125 a day, and an Omaha colleague was making $450 a day, just for X-raying the chests of Arrfly recruits. The Army's explanation was disarmingly simple. For World War II the Army had been prepared: it got its own X-ray machines and did the job itself, except for a few spots where civilian radiologists had to be hired by the day. But after the war the Army had sold too many X-ray machines as surplus...
...developed the first method of making the gall bladder visible to the X-ray machine. Thus, gall bladder diseases can generally be detected and diagnosed...
...operation, it could not be tried on man. But it suggested to Dr. Jacobson that the organs which have the power to manufacture blood may contain a regulating hormone. He will try to isolate the hormone, in the hope that it may speed recovery from radiation sickness and permit X-ray patients to take heavier doses. Among the blood-forming organs he would include the "useless" appendix...