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...neatest, cleanest way to kill a specific segment of tissue in a living body is by rapid deep-freezing. Dr. Cooper's newest technique, used in almost 200 cases in the past year, is to put the patient on the operating table under a battery of X-ray machines. Using a local anesthetic, he saws out a dime-sized piece of the skull, then inserts a three-in-one tube, only 2 mm. (less than 1½ in.) in diameter. The tube slips painlessly through the insensitive brain to the deep-lying thalamus. The tube's outer layer...
...economic geology: the Dunbar laboratory, where geophysicists study rocks and materials under great heat and pressure; and the geological museum, which contains a laboratory for chemical analysis of sedimentary rocks, equipment for the study of stream flow and transportation of sediments, and the Berman Memorial Laboratory which has x-ray equipment for studying the composition and structure of minedals...
Mounted on the sail, and pointed accurately at the center of the sun by a special set of eyes, are five of the 13 observing instruments that OSO carries. An X-ray spectrometer measures the wave length and strength of X rays coming from the sun. A photomultiplier tube looks for powerful gamma rays that are believed to come from electrons and positrons annihilating each other in the sun's churning gas. A dust counter watches the sun to find out whether microscopic dust particles are coming from its direction...
...monthly payment together with $200 of the down payment will go into a medical fund to be administered by Blue Cross of Southern California. The medical fund will support ten resident doctors including a psychiatrist, 26 registered nurses on call round the clock, a free dispensary, a laboratory and X-ray room and 24-hour ambulance service. It will also pay tenant claims for outside medical services, except hospitalization...
...threw suspicion on the progress of the project when it announced late last wok that it is going ahead with plans of its own for a $1.5 million expansion program. The Hospital's new wing, to be completed by next fall, will include 39 private patients' rooms and advanced X-ray equipment...