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Meeting May 10 and 11 for their annual two-day spring session, the Board of Overseers will inspect the new million volt X-ray equipment for the treatment of cancer at the Collis P. Huntington Memorial Hospital of the Medical School. The Overseers will then proceed to the Dental School where they will observe latest methods of clinical teaching...
That women who expect to develop cancer of the breast should have their ovaries destroyed by knife, X-ray or radium was a suggestion which Dr. Wallace Edgar Herrell of the Mayo Clinic last week proposed in the American Journal of Cancer. His theory: female sex hormones affect the breast; mice deprived of their sex hormones do not develop cancer of the breast; cancer of the breast improves in some women after oöphorectomy (castration...
...been scraped clean. The molecules have dissimilar ends, "heads" and "tails." Some years ago Dr. Langmuir found that in a monofilm on water, the heads all pointed up, the tails down. Such films resemble crystals in that their structure and dimensions can be learned from their behavior under X-rays and polarized light...
...Scandinavian monarch is greeted by his subjects with no servility, no boot-licking but with the affectionate bonhomie that a Protestant layman might show to an amiable Bishop of his sect. Last week Denmark's giant-tall King Christian X, on one of his daily horseback jaunts through Copenhagen's busiest streets, was not surprised when a passing truck driver waved him a cheery salute. Back waved King Christian, and at that moment his horse, young and excitable, suddenly reared, fell down. Beneath the horse one of the King's legs was pinioned and anxious bystanders rushed...
...movement came to nothing because the most rabid Republicans decided that popular King Christian would be the only possible President, concluded they might as well retain him as King. On May 14, two days after George VI's Coronation in London, comes the Silver Jubilee of Christian X. Representing Denmark at Westminster Abbey will be Crown Prince Frederik, who will then fly back by specially chartered plane to Copenhagen in time for his father's celebration...