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...Larger use of the X-ray by dentistry and more definite study of dental decay and pyorrhea as manifestations of something going wrong elsewhere in the body are necessary to real progress in the profession. Dental decay and pyorrhea are both preventable diseases and successful treatment of them is dependent on the dentist's assuming a medical as well as a dental attitude in treating his patient...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Advertising Dentists | 11/2/1931 | See Source »

Many say that Professor Jesse W. M. DuMond of California Institute of Technology is Science's best Mechanic. Fortnight ago international physicists at Rome inspected his multiple crystal spectrometer. Last week at Pasadena the public viewed his stereofluoroscope X-ray device...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Best Mechanic | 11/2/1931 | See Source »

...great difficulty in studying X-ray pictures is that, like ordinary photographs, they show no depth. Stereoscopes do indicate depth, by use of two photographs taken from slightly different angles (TIME, Oct. 19). Professor DuMond gets similar effects by using two close-set X-ray tubes and viewing through an appropriate attachment the slightly different shadows each reveals...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Best Mechanic | 11/2/1931 | See Source »

Preoccupied with research and dreading lay notice, young Dr. Moses Swick last week hid in the laboratory recesses of Manhattan's Mount Sinai Hospital. He had developed a method of making the kidneys visible to x-ray photography. The method is so original, reliable and useful that urologists dignify it with the name Swick Method. The shadow material is called lopax in the U. S., Uroselectan in Germany. Its development was the result of chance, curiosity and an inference...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: For Looking at Kidneys | 8/24/1931 | See Source »

...Manhattan, Hattie Brown, 25, a housemaid, gulped when questioned about a ring stolen from her mistress. An X-ray picture revealed the ring in her stomach...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Answer | 8/3/1931 | See Source »

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