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...Mass X Rays. Small-size (4-by-5-in. and 35-mm.) X rays were the main subject of the Mississippi Valley Conference on Tuberculosis. These films, in use about two years and used on recruits by the Army, cut the cost of X rays1? to 6? apiece (price of regular 14-by-17 film: 65?), and "make possible mobile X-ray units which can examine 50,000 people a year. Drs. G. A. Hedberg and E. J. Terrill of Duluth told of one unit which had surveyed an already carefully examined county and found active tuberculosis...
...unearthing clues. For example, laboratories can now determine (by the "dermal nitrate test") whether a suspect has recently fired a gun: if he has, a paraffin cast of the back of his hand, when peeled off, will pull out particles of gunpowder imbedded in the skin. A new X-ray test reveals tiny particles of lead in clothing, showing that a bullet has been fired through it. Dr. Snyder reports that detectives have found the lie detector extremely useful. Though it is exceedingly dubious in the case of pathological liars, drunks, dope addicts or morons, it has solved many...
Lieut. Commander Joseph Jerome Sher in the Naval Medical Bulletin sidesteps the whole open *y. closed debate, recommends using the X-ray technique for 30 days in each cyst case before resorting to surgery. Reason: X rays in sufficient quantity will sometimes dry up a cyst, making an operation unnecessary. Advantage of this method: a patient can be on duty all the time except when he comes in for treatment...
...lucky few can have gland and cancer completely removed. But all that can be done for most patients is to try to make them comfortable and prolong their lives by 1) operations, X-ray or radium treatments; 2) morphine and other pain-killing drugs...
...ringwormy moppet must stay away from school until cured. The minimum curing time for ringworm is a month. X rays are the only way of getting at the fungus around the roots of the hair. To be effective, the rays must make infected hair fall out. Sometimes hair roots get killed in the process. What with new cases and slow-curing cases (if one X-ray treatment does not kill the ringworm fungus, another cannot be given safely for six months), so many Queens moppets are under ringworm quarantine that a special school for ringworm students has been started...