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...services in progress at the cemetery. The resonant chanting of priests was intermittently drowned out by the wailing of black-shawled women. Some of the dead, laid out in open clapboard coffins, had ears hacked off, eyes gouged out. In the ruined hospital, strewn among wrecked operating tables and X-ray machines, were blood-soaked and bullet-riddled mattresses-proof that the sick and wounded had been shot...
...cabbage juice, served a glass at a time, five times a day. Five of the patients had ulcers in the stomach, seven in the duodenum, one in both the stomach and the jejunum (part of the small intestine just below the duodenum). They all got better quickly, according to X-ray evidence. Average healing time was 10.4 days for the duodenal ulcers (compared with 37 days for a control group treated by milk, alkalis and the conventional bland diet), 7.3 days for the six stomach ulcers (compared with 42 days...
There can be such a thing as too much X-raying, thinks British X-ray Specialist James F. Brailsford (TIME, Dec. 20). Mass X-ray examinations, growing more popular in the U.S., do more harm than good, he recently told a group of Hollywood doctors. Said Dr. Brailsford, one of the founders of the British Radiological Society...
...first X-ray pictures ever made had nothing to do with pure science. In 1895, German Physicist Wilhelm Konrad Roentgen made an X-ray photograph of his wife's hand, to make her appreciate the work he was doing and forgive him for having slighted her cooking...
...hand, explained Dr. Brailsford, is "the skeleton's calling card." It can be held perfectly steady for X-ray purposes; there is little tissue between the bones and the camera, hence details photograph more sharply than with deep organic photography. Among the diseases that can sometimes be spotted by radiological palm reading: too much or little activity of the thyroid; nutritional disorders like scurvy and rickets; gout; cancer of the chest (which, like some other chest diseases, shows up as new bone laid down around normal bone); arthritis...