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...solve all this, Menzel directs a cone-roofed observatory in Colorado, and a new station in New Mexico, close to the site of the first atom bomb. The observatories are equipped with spectrohelioscopes-- astronomical X-ray machines that penetrate to the inner layers of the sun--and with coronoscopes, which blot out the sun like an eclipse, so that the other corona can be watched. Menzel went west a few months ago to spend all his time at the solar stations, on the Astronomy Department's biggest project...
...Department's last big project is its X-ray lab, where scientists study the insides of crystals, learning how the molecules are put together...
...immediate treatment of Patient DiMaggio the medicos prescribed injections of novocaine and saline to ease the pain, plus local X-ray applications. Future treatment would depend on how Joe responded, but it was pretty clear that he would have to keep off his feet as much as possible...
First they compared what happened when the patient tried to swallow with what happens when a normal person swallows. Because ordinary X-ray movies were too fast, the doctors slowed them down to 60 a second. They found out what they wanted to know: one reason their patient was choking was that he could not raise his Adam's apple. But how to get his swallowing mechanism working again...
Last week, Baby Michael Goldstein and his sister Karen, 2½, were in the Ophthalmological Institute of Manhattan's Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center; they had the same disease. Karen had one eye removed; X-ray treatments were begun to try to save the other eye. Baby Michael, eleven months old, lost both eyes...