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Hopefully a winner in her third bedridden round with cancer, courageous Super-Athlete Babe Didrickson Zaharias, 42, checked out of a Galveston, Texas hospital. The leg and hip pains that brought her there were eased after intensive X-ray treatments. A full and final recovery? Said a doctor: "You can't always tell about those things...
...original idea at Johns Hopkins was to find some way of brightening the dim X-ray shadows shown on fluoroscopes. If they are brightened by pouring more X rays through the patient, the effect on his health may not be good. With the Lumicon looking at the fluoroscope screen, a very faint picture, drawn by weak and harmless X rays, is made bright enough to show up clearly in a fully lighted room...
...blood pressure, pulse rate and so on have been all right. The laboratory tests have also been encouraging. By laboratory tests, we mean the blood testing and the electrocardiogram-which, although fairly well stabilized, has actually improved in the last few weeks. And we are encouraged about that. The X-ray studies made a week ago are also encouraging. He stood the strain of the last six weeks very well, as shown by the fact that the heart size has not increased in these weeks...
...X-ray motion pictures have passed from the experimental to the practical phase, the Radiological Society of North America was told at its 41st annual meeting in Chicago. The X-ray movies verify accurately what diagnostic physicians have only been able to guess about, e.g., the swallowing process (which doctors found varies greatly from person to person), the stomach's pushing action (gastric peristalsis), speech defects, heart anomalies...
...called it moderate, the doctors referred to the suddenness, not the degree, of the thrombosis. The scar itself measured about four-fifths of an inch, and was "average" for the type of attack. While the heart may have increased in size, Snyder said, it was "hardly demonstrable by the X-ray films...