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Major Ascroft's chief reason for operating at a base hospital: there the surgeon can use 1) the X-ray (which is not always available in forward zones); 2) a suction apparatus to remove injured brain tissues and debris and an electric cautery to stop bleeding. Neither device is obtainable near a swiftly moving front...
...Whenever an X-ray plate or the bone itself shows any sign of damage to the skull's outer shell, a small, exploratory burr hole should be made at that spot. Reason: a blow which causes a slight bruise on the skull's outer shell often causes a serious fracture of the inner shell. In one case, where only a threadlike crack showed on the surface, a bit of the skull's inner shell had been driven almost an inch into the brain...
...remember a worrisome young man who, one day, came back from the roentgenoscopic room wringing his hands and trembling with fear. It is all up with me.' he said. 'The X-ray man said I have a hopeless cancer of the stomach.' Knowing that the roentgenologist would never have said such a thing, I asked, 'Just what did he say?' and the answer was that on dismissing him, the roentgenologist said to an assistant, 'N.P.' In Mayo Clinic cipher this meant 'no plates,' and indicated that the roentgenologist was so satisfied...
Last week, for the first time in its 23 years, New York State's famed, fulminous Boxing Commission had a Negro member. He was handsome, 49-year-old Dr. Clilan Powell, X-ray expert, editor of Harlem's Amsterdam News, director of Victory Mutual Life Insurance Co. (owned and operated exclusively by Negroes). Governor Dewey, whom Powell backed for the governorship, made the appointment. Other Boxing Commission appointments have been political; so might this one be. More to the point was the special justness of giving the Commission a one-third Negro say: of pro pugs today...
...treatment of some cancer conditions, and possibly 300 grams have been sold to U.S. hospitals and doctors. But few specialists are expert enough to use it effectively, few are the cases (less than 20%) in which it could be 100% effective no matter what their skill. Moreover, high-voltage X-rays have increasingly replaced radium for use on cancers located in parts of the body accessible to X-ray tubes. And the cyclotron has created a very serious rival, since other minerals can be made radioactive artificially...