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...telling plea for a nationwide system of cancer detection clinics. Wrote the University of Minnesota's Owen H. Wangensteen: stomach cancer is so insidious and gives so little warning that every man over 50 and every woman over 40 should report to a clinic regularly for an X-ray checkup. To point up his argument, Dr. Wangensteen examined the case histories of five world-famed authorities (including Will Mayo, co-founder of the Mayo Clinic, and R. D. Carman, who developed an improved method for X-ray diagnosis of cancer). Each of the five discovered his own unsuspected cancer...
Last week the Heise boys unveiled a unique project. In Winona, they opened the Heise Clinic. Its staff: Papa Heise & sons. Except for a nurse hired from outside, the clinic was manned entirely by the family. Daughter Dorothy was the receptionist; son-in-law John Curtis, the X-ray and physiotherapy technician. The building (financed by $100,000 the brothers had chipped in) looked like a gleaming vision straight out of Arrowsmith. A two-story limestone affair of 68 rooms done in tile, birchwood and oak, with shiny new medical equipment, the clinic had been personally planned and its construction...
...offer of anti-influenza injections to all undergraduates serves as an example of the type of anti-disease program that can be executed by a college medical center and, at the same time, points up one of the most marked deficiencies of Harvard health care--the lack of systematic x-ray examinations for University members. Students are no less susceptible to disease than workers in any other sedentary occupation. Yet the prevailing type of examination given to Freshmen and veterans will uncover only such symptoms as are subject to external visual detection...
Cornell University has for years immortalized undergraduate viscera on photographic plates, thereby unmasking many incipient diseases. Mass x-ray programs, recently inaugurated in Watertown and Somerville, have uncovered a numerically small but potentially serious number of cases of tuberculosis and lung tumor among men in their early twenties. Even veterans, recipients of pre-separation examinations, cannot feel completely sanguine about their physical condition, for their x-ray plates are inspected by busy and not always thorough medics, who view the whole procedure as a vexatious but necessary duty...
Gently prodded by President Conant, who was favorably impressed by the x-ray examination system he observed at one southern college, the Hygiene Department is considering inaugurating such a system at Harvard. But the project has reached the 'consideration' stage on several past occasions. It is no easy task for a Hygiene Department, chronically harassed by personnel and equipment shortages to undertake the x-raying of several thousand men, particularly when the only machines now available are located at Stillman. However, the plan is brought nearer the realm of the possible by the offer of the Massachusetts Public Health Service...