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Many a dentist feels the same way-for example, Dr. Collins Aloysius LeMaster, who for 28 years practiced in St. Louis and for almost as long taught dental radiology (Xray technique) at St. Louis University. Some years ago, when dentists generally began to install their own X-ray outfits, Dr. LeMaster's laboratory business fell off. Then the "state medicine" bugaboo came along. Dr. LeMaster decided to get out of dentistry entirely...
...more difficult branches of physical therapy, such as artificial fever, radium and X-ray treatment, are practiced by physicians assisted by technicians. The 1,500 members of the American Physiotherapy Association, mostly women, are qualified to give special exercises, massages, baths. Their most important work is re-education of muscles after operation and paralyzing diseases. To get a diploma or certificate from most of the 16 recognized physiotherapy schools in the U. S.*, a student must be a registered nurse or physical-education teacher, must spend one to four years in anatomy, physiology, scientific massage and exercise courses...
...Emmet Kennard Knott, a Seattle physicist and X-ray dealer, began to experiment with the effect of ultraviolet rays on the blood of dogs. In a local veterinary hospital he infected dogs with streptococci and staphylococci, withdrew a large amount of blood from their veins, irradiated it under an ultraviolet lamp, and put it back in circulation. Theoretically, the rays should have killed the germs. Instead, they killed the dogs...
Year ago, the doctors discovered that a young nurse in the hospital was a carrier. Sulfanilamide and other standard drugs did no good; they tried giving her iodophthalein, a dye used to show up the gall bladder in X-ray pictures. Next day the germs had vanished. They have not been heard from since...
With the irrationality of a peeved child, and his characteristic perversity in misjudging issues, Mickey Sullivan has been throwing mud at Harvard's latest philanthropic scheme. Following the University's gift of an expensive X-ray machine to the Cambridge Hospital, Mickey opened up proceedings in the city council to raise enough money to purchase the machine and thereby take control of its operators away from Harvard...