Word: x-rays
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...female such blocking off is very difficult, practically impossible. Yet results comparable to those from the Steinach operation on men have been obtained for women by use of the Xray. The X-ray is extremely penetrating, throws shadows of the anatomy on suitably placed photographic films, which the physician may study for better diagnosis. To get such a photograph the patient is exposed to the rays for only some seconds. Prolonged exposure causes. destruction of tissue. So this latter phenomenon physicians use to devitalize cancerous growths-and on the ovaries to bring on artificial menopause...
...From this survey it will be evident that the final solution of the cancer problem has not been reached and patients will still have to rely upon early diagnosis and prompt surgical treatment as at present for the most effective means of curing early cancer. Radium and X-ray still remain useful forms of treatment where surgery is not available, and colloidal lead seems to promise hope to others. But at present no final judgment can be rendered concerning its efficacy, nor does it seem likely that in the near future will any great improvement in its use be discovered...
...Ambassador to Germany, James W. Gerard, who prefaces the book, that Harden's "power of delineating a personality is more than photographic," that "the hidden thoughts and secret emotions" of men "are as plain to him as if he pierced their being with a mental x-ray...
...Frank Sullivan has reported to the New York World a Munchausen-like anecdote concerning an Egyptian who conjures with his stomach. The man in question, Mr. Hadji All, has so far limited his performances to select audiences examining him and the wonder stomach through the medium of an X-ray machine, but the time cannot be long before he appears on the stage...
...They knew that iodin and bromin salts are opaque to the Roentgen ray. They secured a combination of these salts and obtained X-ray pictures of the abdomen in which the gallbladder, previously invisible because of soft tissue, appeared almost as clearly as did the bones themselves. Stones in the gallbladder were localized easily. At the meeting of the American Roentgen Ray Society in Washington, D. C., $600 of the $1,000 Leonard Prize for accomplishment in the X-ray field was awarded to these investigators. The remainder of the prize went to G. Failla of New York...