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...innovation of the Medical Department this year has resulted in taking X-ray photographs of the entire Freshman class along with silhouettes of each individual for the purpose of correcting postures...
Every 1930 student was notified in his registration envelope to report for an X-ray examination. The photographs were taken of the chest, and while the proofs have not yet been returned to Wadsworth House, it is expected that they will give information about the heart, and lungs that will prove invaluable able to the regular physical examinations...
...vengeance. In his presidential address, Dr. James F. Norris of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the Society's chief, dwelt upon this subject most optimistically. The initial energy required to alter atomic arrangements and in so doing release new energy of high intensity has been found in the X-ray tube. Synthetic fuels and lighting gases might be but one result, on a modest scale. Sugar from formaldehyde is already another. The economic implications of the power to transmute base metals would be tremendous. The identification and destruction of specific disease molecules are not unthinkable...
...Columbus, Ohio, Railroad Switchman Harry C. Cramer had an x-ray made of his chest. The left side had been distressing him. When he breathed, it scarcely budged. The x-ray showed that fluid had accumulated in his left pleural cavity (the space in which the lung moves), had squeezed his left lung up until it barely moved under his shoulder blade, had forced his heart far out of normal over to the right side of his body. Surgeons at Columbus' New McKinley Hospital tapped his chest with a hollow, apirating needle, drew off some pus, a minor operation...
Within his office, Mayor Walker told friends that he had tried for half an hour to rise from his chair, but could not because of a terrific pain in his left knee. He called his brother, Dr. William H. Walker, who ordered an X-ray to be taken...