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...other healthy. The cancer tissue acted exactly like the positive pole, and the normal rat, the negative, in an ordinary dry-cell circuit He proved that cancerous tissue has an excess of positive charge which may be neutralized by the application of an equal negative charge. This explains why X-ray and radium treatment, in which the alpha or positive rays are screened off by a lead shield, while the beta and gamma rays (negative) are allowed to reach the diseased tissue, have had good results. Colloids of certain elements, such as iodine, sulphur, lead, mercury, have strongly negative charges...
...longest X-ray treatment for cancer on record was given last week in Bellevue Hospital, New York, b> Dr. I. Seth Hirsch. The patient was exposed for 56 hours to the maximum voltage (250,000) of a high-power X-ray machine, concentrated on an abdominal cancer in a position where surgical treatment was impossible, Several weeks will be required to determine the success of the treatment, but the patient's condition is favorable...
...three-days-old baby, unable to breathe, and kept alive by artificial respiration of oxygen, was saved at the New York Infirmary for Women and Children when X-ray treatment to reduce an abnormal thymus gland was applied under the direction of Dr. Mary Halton. The thymus is a small ductless gland situated at the base of the neck, whose functions are imperfectly understood, though its secretion or " hormone " is believed to influence children's growth and bone formation. It is present in children from before birth until puberty...
...certification of deaths. But the fact of the menace remains. Cancer is confined largely to middle life and old age, and is higher in the northern than the southern states, although this is not due to the race factor. Cancer is curable-if taken in time. Surgery and deep X-ray or radium treatment are so far the only proved remedies. Progress in the latter methods has recently been rapid. But the rub lies just in the fact that the malady is seldom discovered until it is too late when the lawless growth of the cancer cells has gotten...
Professor William Duane '93 of the Medical School has been awarded the Comstock prize of $1,500 by the National Academy of Sciences for his investigations in radiant energy and X-ray...