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...Francis X. Hurley...
...victims were male guinea pigs. Thirteen were penned in small cages 18 inches from the antenna of a radar transmitter. Nine were exposed to the waves direct. Others were shielded by sheet copper, which would not stop any X rays the apparatus might be emitting...
Last week Tom Sawyer's amiable hocus-pocus got a nod of approval from a scientific quarter. Said Dr. Hermann Vollmer of New York in the current Psychosomatic Medicine: suggestion is "at least as effective" a cure for warts as X ray or surgery. He documented his case with the findings of French, German and Swiss dermatologists, outlined his own experiments with over 100 children...
...National Academy of Sciences, Johns Hopkins' crack syphilologist, Dr. Joseph Earle Moore, trotted into the open a meager collection of recently discovered facts about penicillin (until now blanketed by wartime security): 1) instead of only one type of penicillin, there are at least four (arbitrarily named G, F, X, K); 2) type K is virtually useless because it is destroyed within the body so fast (in less than an hour) that it can't get set for a knockout punch at the germs. In trying to produce a purer form of penicillin, drug companies had inadvertently made...
Some substances in the pile" give off gamma rays (X rays). Scientists see no reason why they should not be used to take pictures of infected teeth or flaws in steel castings...