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...Pontiff had taken no breakfast when, at 8 a.m., he stepped into a little, white-walled room in his Vatican apartment. Flanking an X-ray table set up for the occasion were four doctors. As the ailing Pope raised his hand in blessing, all knelt for a short prayer. Then, at last, the doctors were able to begin a task that should have been done months, if not years ago: a thorough X-ray of their patient's intestinal tract. (Many times during his recurrent illness the Pope could not have stood the process, but some Vaticaners feel that...
...Pope's housekeeper, Sister Pasqualina, handed him a "barium breakfast"-a glass of gritty, ill-tasting barium sulfate which he swallowed slowly with unconcealed dislike. The Pope remained standing as the barium salt (opaque to X-rays) moved down his gullet, and the doctors made exposures to show its entrance into his recently inflamed stomach. Then the Pope lay down on the table and the X-ray camera shot more pictures showing the barium's slow course through the stomach and into the upper intestinal tract...
Clarkson's illness had forced him to go home periodically for X-ray treatments, and in November he took a leave of absence...
Many of his colleagues thought that Dr. Garland was unduly pessimistic. Some mass X-ray surveys, they argued, have turned up much higher percentages of lung-cancer cases than those he cited. By improving their techniques, some doctors hope to do an even better job of detection. Washington's Dr. Edgar W. Davis suggested one improvement-X-ray specialists should realize that half of the tumorlike masses which appear benign on the plate are actually malignant, so that the rule should be: when in doubt, operate as early as possible...
...capsule of cobalt-60 (cost: $50) will cast its X-ray beam through metal welding, will easily show up every flaw. This inspection process, too expensive with old-style X-ray machines, increases the welding safety factor, reduces the thickness of metal that need be used. Example: if all welds are inspected with CO-60, a 50 ft. "Horton sphere" for storing high-pressure gases can be built safely with 12% less steel at a saving...