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Proof that Veronese intended to paint Venus as a half naked lady rather than as a nude Renaissance goddess has been, supplied by workers at the Fogg Art Museum who have been using the X-ray to test the authenticity of masterpieces. The rays have uncovered the first version of the Italian artist's "Mars and Venus" where the figure of Venus was half draped...
...pyloric end where digested food goes out into the intestines. Pathologists notice that every ulcer or cancer of the stomach always distorts the neat parallelism of the wrinkles. But they notice it only after the patient is dead and the autopsist has done his work. If x-ray pictures had shown the irregular wrinkles, the doctor might have saved the patient before it was too late...
...Ordinary x-ray pictures, taken after the patient has eaten a paste of barium sulphate, show only the outline of the stomach. A method of outlining all the rugae occurred to a few roentgenologists. notably to Dr. Aubrey Otis Hampton, 34, a sharp-nosed Texan who went to Boston to practice medicine. Last week he explained the method to other fellows of the American College of Surgeons (see p. 35) who crowded his lecture in Boston...
...first Dean of the Dental School ever to hold both the M.D. and D.M.D. degrees, and as one of the widest awake of his profession during the period which the experience of the war enlightened as to the possibilities of among other things, the x-ray, of novocaine, and of proper nutrition, Dr. Miner found himself in a position to take commanding lead in the advocacy of a merger. How effective that lead has been is amply demonstrated first in the establishment of the Forsyth Chair of Dental Science in 1926, and now, in the establishment of the University Committee...
...Cures" have been just as multitudinous: caustics, serums, chemicals, hormones. But the fact remains that only by surgery, radium or x-ray does any reputable physician today treat cancer with any hope of success...