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...Public Health Service, immunization has laid diphtheria low. Better sanitation (including fewer flies because of fewer horses) has knocked intestinal infections, such as diarrhea and enteritis, off the top list. Sulfa drugs and penicillin have taken the edge off pneumonia. Tuberculosis has yielded somewhat to better treatment and early X-ray diagnosis. To take their places, non-germ diseases have moved up. Last year's list: 1) heart disease; 2) cancer; 3) cerebral hemorrhage; 4) nephritis; 5) pneumonia and influenza; 6) accidents (except motor vehicle); 7) tuberculosis; 8) diabetes; 9) premature birth; 10) motor vehicle accidents...
...getting the least study. Some points: ¶ Gastric cancer gives no early warning, is usually unsuspected until too late. ¶By the time they get to a doctor, only 8% of stomach-cancer victims can be successfully treated, 25% are beyond all help. ¶The best protection is frequent X-ray examination of every citizen to detect cancers early, but the handful of U.S. cancer clinics already have six-month examination waiting lists...
Soon other cases turned up. Friedman treated them with the hospital's 1,000,000-volt X-ray machine, "Big Bertha," found that he could arrest their cancers if he adjusted the X-ray dose to the contents of the tumor, i.e., one dose for bone, another for lung, etc. All told, he treated 256 G.I.s with cancer of the testes, got a high percentage of improvement...
...experts, some of whom had solemnly verified the forged Vermeers, were now at work with their biggest X-ray machines and subtlest chemicals to prove Van Meegeren a fraud when his case comes up next month (although The Netherlands Government's information service has already said that "there can be no doubt that this mad genius did paint the seven pictures attributed to Vermeer...
...simulate altitudes up to 60,000 feet. As the Gs begin to multiply, a television tube will stare him in the face, flashing his tortured grimaces to a screen in the control room. Elaborate instruments will study his fluttering heart; an electroencephalograph will record his troubled brain waves. An X-ray motion picture camera will photograph the slithering of his internal organs. Before his eyes, little lights will flash. In his ear a buzzer will buzz. He can put out the lights and still the buzzer by pressing the proper buttons. When he no longer can, he will be considered...