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...Traffic. From the patient on the operating table are leads to an electrocardiograph that projects tracings on a wall screen. Also projected are lines showing the pulse, the heart sounds, and the pressure in each side of the heart. Attached to the table is an X-ray machine that will photograph the heart and major blood vessels after opaque dye is injected into the bloodstream. The surgeon can order these projected on a giant screen within minutes after an exposure in order to keep a running check on the effects of the operation...
Inside Picture. Westinghouse Electric Corp. put on sale a fluoroscopic television set that can show an X-ray image 200 times brighter than any TV set ever used for the same purpose before. Thus, it can be used to study internal organs and bone joints in action as patients walk about. Price...
...Anderson Hos pital for Cancer Research posed a tougher problem for the social workers than for the doctors. She had cancer of the cervix. She was hundreds of miles from home, and needed a place near by to live for three months while she took regular X-ray treatments as an outpatient. Mrs. Edna Wagner, tireless and efficient director of social service at Anderson Hospital, shook her head: there was no suitable housing for such a patient in segregated Houston. But the woman had a son living in the city. Against her own better judgment, Mrs. Wagner told the patient...
...Extreme pessimism regarding cancer of the lung is no longer justified, said the University of Tennessee's Dr. Duane Carr. Even in cases which are found too late for surgery to help, deep X-ray treatments and drugs (nitrogen mustard and triethylene melamine) will relieve pain and prolong life...
...Finder. An X-ray machine that shows up tiny insects in stored grain was announced by du Pont. Using the machine, one man can inspect 80 grain samples a day, v. 25 to 50 samples with the old method of cracking open kernels and floating the particles in mineral oil or gasoline. Price: $2,300 for X-ray unit and darkroom equipment...