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Died. Dr. C. Edmund Kells, famed dentist, first to use X-ray in his work; by suicide; in New Orleans. Experiments with X-ray had caused an arm infection which 27 operations had not cured...
...X-ray were transmitted down the generations. Biologist Muller tried the effect of other agents on the germ plasm. Treatment with lead, arsenic, poisons which were known to change cells had no effect. X-rays and cosmic rays are the only forces in nature that can shake up the germ cells, changing their original plan of development, making the changes hereditary in many cases. X-rays and cosmic rays exist everywhere. They may, thinks Dr. Muller, be responsible for all changes in the evolutionary tree...
...Crowden, physiologist of University College, London, made a 25 year study on a pair of identical twins. They had the same illnesses at the same time during this period. Their profile photographs superimposed in any year resulted in a perfect outline, with no marring double line. X-ray photographs of their skulls superimposed in every part, and their body measurements, height, weight were practically identical. Finger prints of one were mirror images of fingerprints of the other. The blood composition and count, the temperature and respiration rates were the same. They had the same temperaments and attitudes of mind. Accused...
...line drive hit John McGraw in the right ankle which swelled up. McGraw, who had a dancing date that evening, sent out for crutches, had an X-ray taken, spent a day in his room, came down to the field next day with a camp stool, a cane, a crutch, and a megaphone. Later in the hotel he called the squad round him, put them through tactical drill he calls "skull practice...
...penetrating gamma rays might be deflected from a metal target, as in simple x-ray tubes, and reveal unknown properties of bodies...