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...school in all departments. Specimen cases such as those on which the students work, reports of recent important investigations, and regular clinics in action will be among the sights for the visitors. The several departments taking part in the exhibition are the Operative, Prosthetic, Surgical, Orthodontia, Dental Anatomy, X-ray, Photography, and Research...
Included in the afternoon program are talks illustrating the work of the students in the various fields. Also of interest to the visitors is the display of the X-ray survey which was made this year of the Harvard Freshman Class, the first of its kind held anywhere. At 5 o'clock an exhibit of the progress and development of the Research Department will be held, to be followed immediately by motion pictures taken by the school photographer, illustrating several of the most important parts of the work of the school...
Sued. Elsie French and Anne Colby* ("X-Ray Twins") Vanderbilt, month-old daughters of William Henry Vanderbilt and Mrs. (Anne Gordon Colby) Vanderbilt; along with 24 of their kin, all heirs of the late Cornelius Vanderbilt (died : by the U. S. Government; for $800,000 in profits, back taxes and interest from the sale in 1927 of the Vanderbilt mansion on Fifth Avenue, Manhattan. Valued at $3,000,000, it was sold for $7,100,000 which reverts to the heirs at the death of 86-year-old Mrs. Alice Gwynne ("The Dowager Mrs.") Vanderbilt. The Government regards the sale...
...Francisco, last year cautiously announced that they were alleviating hopeless cases of cancer by means of adrenal cortex extract derived from sheep. The Hearst press recognized the kernel of news in this announcement and puffed it so that thousands of cancer victims abandoned the orthodox treatment of surgery, X-rays and radium, rushed for the sure-cure...
Little is known of cosmic rays. But of other rays a progressive series of effects on living matter may be observed. Heat, for example-and Dr. Heyroth pursued his thesis* with mounting excitement- sears the flesh immediately. X-rays cause a burn which becomes evident three weeks to six months after. Gamma-ray burns do not show for years. "So the cosmic rays, we believe, must take infinitely longer still. Of what investigation we have made of these rays, we venture what seems to be a wholly new theory as to why- exempting not even the strongest and most sheltered...