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Burned blackly into medical annals is the fire in Surgeon George Washington Crile's .Cleveland Clinic (TIME, May 27, 1929). The fire occurred in a basement room wherein were stored x-ray films. The burning films emitted fumes (carbon monoxide and nitrogen tetroxide) which killed scores of Dr. Crile's patients, doctors and employes on the spot. Other scores died during the following weeks. Deaths eventually totalled...
...X-Ray Farm? Plaything of the General Electric staff is their monstrous x-ray farm on the laboratory roof. C. P. Haskins exposed grapefruit, orange, aster and cotton seeds to x-rays from two to 16 minutes. The grapefruit blossomed five weeks after planting. In nature first blossoming re quires five years' growth. On the contrary, sweet orange seed grew into a twisted, two-leaf plant. As grotesque was a sour orange plant with no green chlorophyll in its stem or leaves. The aster and cotton plants were gnarled dwarfs...
...x-ray spectra are useful. Analysts get the spectra by striking the material with cathode rays until x-rays flash off. If the material can be put in a vacuum tube the process is comparatively easy. Otherwise the cathode rays must be shot out of the vacuum tube through a very thin metal window into the open air, and then upon material to be examined. This is exceedingly difficult to accomplish. Air tends to dissipate and absorb cathode rays before they can strike x-rays from anything. Dr. Gorton Rosa Fonda exhibited a stubby, 12-in. tube which produces...
...Chicago restaurant, Gerald Bodine clutched his throat, loudly demanded the manager, swore that something he had eaten was stuck in his gullet. An x-ray revealed a brad lodged below the tonsils. After an operation to remove the brad, Gerald Bodine put in a damage claim. An insurance adjuster allowed the claim, but the company discovered that smart Gerald Bodine had mulcted insurance firms ten times for gulping nails, brads, tacks, pins...
Eighteen months ago, after hundreds of drinks of the radium tonic, he began having pains in his jaw, severe headaches. Dr. Joseph Manning Steiner, Manhattan x-ray specialist who had seen several of the young women poisoned in U.S. Radium Corp.'s factory (TIME, June 4, 1928 et seq.'), recognized in Byers' condition symptoms of radium poisoning...