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...Baltimore, Dr. Joseph Colt Bloodgood, clinical professor of surgery and director of the Garvan Experimental Laboratory at Johns Hopkins University,! presided over a three-day conference of medical men. Twenty-thousand letters had been sent inviting doctors to instruction in reading X-ray pictures of cancerous bones. Only 300 appeared at Baltimore, but events proved that the 300 needed Dr. Bloodgood's instruction. He had photograph after photograph of cancerous bones and joints thrown on a screen. The 300 were asked to write down their diagnoses. At first very few were correct. But as projections continued scores mounted until...
...Bloodgood repeated the offer which Johns Hopkins and all the other great cancer clinics have made: if a doctor is uncertain of an X-ray diagnosis, he may mail the photograph to the clinic. Experts will report the reading to him and not make a charge unless the doctor says that his patient can afford...
...music, seem to have humorous possibilities. But Anybody's War is only mildly funny. The trouble is partly the interjection of an unnecessary lovestory, and partly that Bert Swor, who takes Moran's old part in the team, acts merely as a feeder to Mack. Best shot: X-ray of a stomach containing a pair of dice and a fishhook...
...Navy, in signal flags over the proscenium of the National Geographic Society's auditorium: "Yoke, William, X-ray." (Translation: "Well done...
...Cancer is treated by X-ray, radium, or surgery. The earlier competent advice is sought, the greater the chance of cure. It is not a shameful disease to be kept under cover. The average delay before seeking competent advice is eight months, but there should be no such delay...