Word: x-rayed
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Miley had already used ultraviolet blood irradiation, first conceived in 1928 by a Seattle physicist and X-ray dealer named Emmet K. Knott, to cure septicemia or "blood poisoning" (TIME, June 24, 1940). He found that the ultraviolet rays not only killed the septicemic bacteria in the blood stream but increased the oxygen content of the blood-just the thing, he suspected, for asthmatics wheezy to the point of strangulation. In the last three years he has tried the Knott technique on 24 asthma patients, all of whom defied treatment by conventional methods such as nasal surgery, allergy studies, adrenalin...
...watched his Hawaiian volunteer workers, Colonel Unmacht had his big idea. He told the women to fold back the corners of the sacks and stitch them up to resemble rabbit ears. Then he asked Hawaiian hospitals for old X-ray negatives washed clean with acid. The negatives made transparent plastic windows for the front of Colonel Unmacht's bunny masks. At latest reports Hawaiian moppets are so eager to play rabbit in the new masks that parents are being asked to keep all bunny masks laid safely away for a real emergency...
...last month the 19 "lepers" were told that doctors had at last figured out what was wrong: they were suffering from X-ray burns. Here & there a wife wept quietly. But most of the men felt better at once, though they were victims' of the most tragic blunder in U.S. industrial medicine...
...almost a year ago. When workmen with injured hands reported to the shipyard hospital, attendants allowed them to put their hands or feet into an X-ray machine and watch the waggling shadows of their bones on a fluoroscopic screen. X-rays are literally death rays which kill flesh when too powerful or upon prolonged exposure. Apparently the workmen X-rayed themselves for several minutes. Skilled X-ray technicians limit exposure to only a few seconds...
Meanwhile the shipyard's chief doctor has had a nervous breakdown, another doctor has been fired. The 19 maimed workmen will probably collect at least $165,000 in disability compensation. Their X-ray burns, though they may seem to be cured, may break out again any time as long as the men live...