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After operations and heavy X-ray treatments for cancer of the thyroid, Mrs. Leota Rogers, 21, seemed to be getting along well at a ranch near Moses Lake in central Washington. She was riding her own horses and helping around the house. But a fortnight ago, as she finished an afternoon snack, the carotid artery in the right side of her neck burst where it had been weakened by the cancer and treatment. Blood spurted halfway across the room. Mrs. Rogers took the first step toward saving her life by plugging the pencil-size hole with her finger...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Thumb in Neck | 4/26/1954 | See Source »

Some of the conquerors themselves are alarmed at the trend. U.S. businessmen, who have found themselves undersold in foreign markets by 40% or more on such items as X-ray equipment and cement-making machinery, are getting out their storm warnings. Some British firms are so worried that they are already bluntly reminding their customers that the Germans who today are winning export business away from the British are the" same ones who yesterday made the V-25 that bombed London. Headlined Lord Beaverbrook's London Daily Express: THEY'LL BEAT YOU YET, THESE GERMANS...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BUSINESS ABROAD: Comeback in the West | 2/15/1954 | See Source »

...patient of whom Dr. Schutte had just showed clinical pictures. Thirteen months ago, Senora R., wife of a Havana street-cleaner, was near death from a recurrence of cancer (an operation for breast removal four years earlier had failed to eliminate all the disease sites). Hormone and X-ray treatments were of no further avail...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: The Case of Senora R. | 2/1/1954 | See Source »

...infectious TB who refuse voluntary isolation, 3) give health officers authority to confine violators of the act in a state TB hospital for from 30 days to six months.* Said Health Commissioner Bruce Underwood: "This legislation makes it a crime to spread tuberculosis." ¶General Electric's X-ray department in Milwaukee announced this week that, in cooperation with both government and private organizations, it would produce a new 6,000,000-volt electron gun for treating cancer. The gun was designed by Professor Edward L. Ginzton, head of Stanford's Microwave Laboratory, and Radiologist Henry S. Kaplan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Capsules, Jan. 18, 1954 | 1/18/1954 | See Source »

...Murphy, X-ray technician at Dillon and spokesman for the training staff, stresses the point that anyone who walks into the room gets equal attention. "If President Pusey walked in right now," he said, "he'd have to get at the end of the line." A varsity player can move to the head of the line, but no one else can pull rank...

Author: By Johnson N. Johnson, | Title: In My 'Maidenform' Bandage . . . | 1/5/1954 | See Source »

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