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...apparent cure of a case of bone cancer by means of arsenic warranted reporting in the current issue of the Canadian Medical Association Journal. A Toronto woman, Mrs. R- F-, had a cancer on her left thigh bone. High voltage X-ray treatment for eight months produced no observable good...
...young boy was taken to one of the larger hospitals of Boston, exhibiting marked evidence of serious mental disturbance, including melancholia. All hope of helping his condition had been practically abandoned, and he was about to be committed to one of the State Institutions. A last-minute X-ray examination of his mouth showed two badly impacted wisdom teeth. Upon their removal the patient made rapid improvement, and returned to his usual occupation...
...When the x-rays strike the copper plate they pass through the submicroscopic lattice which the copper atoms form, cast a fencelike shadow upon the screen. When Dr. Lark-Horovitz adds energy to the copper plate by heating it, electrons jump from one energy level to another in the copper atoms, and the "pickets" in the x-ray picture shift a perceptible distance. Dr. Lark-Horovitz calculates the intra-atomic movements at one 200,000,000th part of an inch...
...same concept led to his creating almost complete vacuums in thermionic tubes. To do this he was obliged to design a new powerful mercury pump. Result is cheap, highly efficient vacuum tubes for radio, and long distance telephony. Another result was Dr. Coolidge's perfection of dependable x-ray tubes and his design of tandem x-ray', tubes whose radiation is almost as powerful as radium's gamma rays. (Manhattan's Memorial Hospital is using a 900,000-volt Coolidge tube to treat cancer...
...void the contract was denied by the New York Supreme Court, appealed. Honored. George Oenslager, B. F. Goodrich Co. technical adviser, by the Perkins Medal (high U. S. chemistry award) for research in rubber chemistry; University of Illinois Chemistry Professor George Lindenberg Clark, by the Grasselli Medal, for X-ray research in chemistry; General Electric Co.'s Engineer Frank M. Starr, by the $500 Alfred Noble Prize,* for a paper on "Equivalent Circuits...