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...process introduced by Amarillo's Dr. O. M. Franklin the branding iron is dipped in a chemical, the calf stamped as though it were a cold-storage egg. In a few days the chemical painlessly eats away hair, turns red flesh to white, leaves a clean-cut Bar X or Lazy...
...multiply in some cases to as much as1,000,000 per cu. mm. Overproduction comes from the blood-making (hematopoietic) elements of the spleen, marrow and lymph glands. Death invariably results-for acute cases within three months. Chronic cases may hang on for five years or longer. Radium and x-rays, arsenic or benzol cautiously administered for a time slow up the excess white cell production. Transfusion of normal blood has little effect, at least in leukemic children...
...Died. Eugene G. Northington. 53, retired lieutenant colonel of the U. S. Army Medical Corps who as a pioneer experimenter with x-rays first established their danger to the user; of cancer of the limbs caused by too frequent x-rays exposure; in San Francisco. Calif. To check the spread of cancerous tissue he had army surgeons operate on him 164 times, lost both arms...
...testicle. In itself the teratoma is not dangerous. But its parts, being embryonic in nature, may at any provocation burst into a rage of growth. Then a man has a wild cancer sending its buds throughout his system and early recognition of the monstrosity, its prompt abortion by x-ray and castration, become important...
...Presbyterian General Assembly closed its annual meeting in Columbus. Ohio. Dr. Leon Decatur Young passed out copies of the Sin-Board among his fellow delegates: the Presbyterian evangelism division had indorsed it. There are small Sin-Boards. 6x9 in., for use during sermons, and cardboard sheets 40 x 48 in., which sell for $1. Some sins and peccadillos on Preacher Young's list: Adultery Hypocrisy Agnosticism Inferiority Complex Aping the World Miserliness Being a Lone Wolf Murder Class Distinction Road Hog Dispositional Temper Sabbath Desecration Waste of Others'Time Waste of One's Time Drinking Gambling Time