Word: x-rays
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...heat ever reaches anything in space. "So must research be lavish." Many an unhampered experiment at Eastman tends to stray from the field of photography. In a vacuum of one-millionth atmospheric pressure, Dr. Kenneth Claude Devereux Hickman is distilling pure Vitamins A and D from animal oils. An X-ray device has been developed which tells genuine from imitation leather, and which reveals the minutest internal details of insects, down to embryonic skeletons in unlaid eggs. A method of developing sensitized paper by heat may find its industrial application in making wrappings for fruit, to warn consignees when shipments...
...member of the hospital staff, Dr. Minas Joannides, led the woman to an X-ray machine. Visible on a fluorescent screen were her slanted ribs, her heart behind her breast bone, and shadowy splotches which Dr. Joannides explained were her diseased lungs...
Have you seen the Autumn foliage? The Vagabond just returned from a short jaunt to the New Hampshire country. It is thus with joy that he leaves his Tower this morning at 12 for the Fogg Museum and a lecture by the kindly Professor Lake. At 11 in the X-Ray room Mr. Burroughts will talk informally on 17th century painting in New England. On second thought it does seem that the Vagabond is a victim of what is popularly known as the system. Other lectures follow...
...climb the grubbiest period is the year or two after medical school when the graduate doctor is fulfilling his interneship requirements. In most of the 697 good U. S. hospitals, the interne gets an opportunity to ride the ambulance to emergency cases, to practice medicine, surgery, pediatrics, obstetrics and x-ray technique on ward and clinic cases. Experienced practitioners hover over him all the time, show him how to do this & that. In time he may get opportunity to suture the peritoneum after the appendectomist or the laparotomist gets through his work. But real experience in surgery is usually reserved...
...x-ray method of Drs. William Charles D. Maile and K. J. L. Scott utilizes the shadow effect of one to two ounces of bismuth swallowed with a test meal. That small amount of bismuth does not ascertainably retard digestion, they discovered, after they set to work on three doctors and their wives, one dentist and one medical student. The most surprising fact that Drs. Maile and Scott discovered was that milk is one of the most tedious foods to digest. A pint of rich raw milk takes 6½ hours to get out of the stomach. A pint...