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...into the lungs of anesthetized cats, Dr. Barclay and his associates found that the dust in dry form remained in the windpipe and its branches, never penetrating into the little sacs (alveoli) which absorb oxygen from the air and eliminate carbon dioxide from the blood. They could see by X-ray the foreign particles moving from the base of the lungs up & out. The movement they discovered was spiral and (viewed from above) clockwise. Particles traveled 1½ inches per minute within a cat's windpipe. When administered in oil or other fluids, the particles quickly reached the alveoli...
Professor Jonas Borak, X-ray specialist...
...excess of doctors in the community. Three out of ten Vienna doctors are Jews. Adolf Hitler, who once lived there as a penniless house painter thinks that the populace can get along with less doctoring. The fact that last summer German doctors were permitted to attend a Viennese X-ray congress dominated by Jews last week seemed no warrant against a thoroughgoing Nazi program...
Denied the use of human subjects, researchers make most of their cancer experiments on animals. One vicious type of animal cancer-"mouse sarcoma 180"-is highly resistant to such ordinary methods of treatment as radium and X-ray therapy. In very few cases does it dry up and disappear spontaneously. More important, mouse sarcoma 180 is a reliable subject on which to test the effectiveness of various treatments for human cancer...
...year apiece, 1,510,000 U. S. citizens are entitled, if sick, to 21 days board and nursing in a semiprivate hospital room, use of maternity delivery room, ordinary X-ray and laboratory examinations, anesthesia. For $18 a year man & wife may get the same accommodation, for $24 a year an entire family (TIME, April 6, 1936, et seq.). From those fees 15% goes for hospitals' charges, 12% for administration expenses of the service, the balance into reserve. During the four years since these hospital services developed subscribers paid $7,681,517 to hospitals. $1,230,000 to administration...