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Only a month ago Dr. Zinsser still went to his laboratory every day, jaunty and gay. But he knew the end was near. He was taking X-ray treatments, which did no good. In mid-August he went to Manhattan, entered world-famed Memorial Hospital under the care of his friend, Dr. Cornelius Packard Rhoads. Thirty-six hours before he died, Hans Zinsser lost consciousness...
...York World's Fair, in the Medicine & Public Health Building, is a high-speed X-ray machine. Visitors line up for white jackets, have an X-ray of their chests for $1. Results are sent to the family physician. Last week the machine had a startling story to tell: of 11,234 supposedly healthy persons examined last year, 3.3% were active (clinically significant) tuberculosis cases-six times the national rate...
...feeling her creative power had dried up, she had her ovaries stimulated by X-ray and promoted rejuvenation in a novel, Black Oxen (1923). Whatever the source of her second vigor, yellow-haired, red-nailed Octogenarian Atherton has injected a good deal of it into The House of Lee. When the family fortune of the well-bred San Francisco Lees collapses, Lucy Lee, Mrs. Lee and Mrs. Edington set about to earn their own livings with glares at Labor and the New Deal. Mrs. Edington rejects a $100,000 cinema offer, strides firmly through her world of clubs...
Doctors do not know the cause of cancer, nor can they prevent a tumor from spreading and migrating. Their only hope, in treating the disease, is to catch a malignant tumor early, burn it with X-ray or cut it out. Last week, in the Archives of Surgery, Dr. Frederick Madison Allen of Manhattan's Polyclinic Hospital suggested a new way of killing cancers: suffocation...
...strictly in an experimental stage." Often it is impossible to tie off blood vessels and the treatment can be used only for certain localized external growths. But he reminded his colleagues that tumors can be "asphyxiated" by other means. He urged that research be continued on treatment combining X-ray and artificially induced inflammation...