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...transmitted by California's Secretary Warnshuis. In that resolution California doctors prayed that the A. M. A. convention next month will condemn a practice which has spread through California. In San Francisco and Los Angeles a doctorless patient may march into a hospital, get a complete diagnosis by X-ray men, pathologists, urinoscopists and other technicians. Since diagnosis has been the prerogative of the practicing physician, "the provision of such diagnostic medical service will inevitably foster fundamental changes in the practice of medicine. . . . Therefore be it Resolved, That . . . [this] practice be terminated as speedily as possible...
...twentieth, the area of man's knowledge vastly increased. Jove's lightning, once more mysterious than the sun-spots, now illuminates homes, irons shirts and cooks toast. At 150 miles an hour man rides the air more easily than stage-horses could plod the ground at fifteen. The X-ray pierces steel, and the radio causes a whisper to be heard in five continents. But the alphabet and the multiplication-table are unchanged. Changeless also is the need that use of these tools should be taught in the elementary schools with utmost simplicity and absolute certainty. Not different...
...Chicopee Falls (Mass.) plant turns out radio equipment. The Newark (N. J.) plant manufactures metres. Power transformers and transmission equipment are produced at Sharon, Pa. Diesel-electric units, steam turbines, marine reducing gears emerge from the South Philadelphia works. A Long Island City (N. Y.) plant specializes in X-ray equipment, a Cleveland plant in lighting fixtures, a Homewood (Pa.) plant in repairs and replacements. The East Springfield (Mass.) factory concentrates on fractional horsepower motors and the things they operate - fans, vacuum cleaners, food mixers, refrigerator units. Refrigerator cabinets, irons, ranges, toasters are made in Mansfield, Ohio. Westinghouse elevators come...
James R. Lingley, as Roentgenologist in charge of the X-ray work of the Harvard Hygiene Department until Sept...
...Medical Dean Willard Cole Rappleye, that "beginning in 1938 no physician will be listed as a specialist who does not possess a certificate from a board in his particular branch of practice." Consonant with that idea, the A. M. A. Journal last week published a list of reliable x-ray specialists. The list was surprising, for it contained only 1,274 names for the entire country. Some communities like Des Moines have only one approved x-ray specialist...