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...sending in a bill for surgery and office calls while the patient was actually in New York. Others got higher fees by raising the category of their work-e.g., charging for a cataract operation instead of merely draining a sty. There was wholesale chiseling by charging for imaginary X rays and laboratory tests...
Another Lincoln patient is Tobey's daughter, Mrs. Louise Dean, who was treated for multiple sclerosis. Still another is Charles W. Tobey Jr., 41, who had an operation and X-ray treatment for cancer of lymph tissues before he tried Lincoln's tame viruses. Now he gives much or most of the credit for his improvement to the Lincoln treatment...
...focused on a weakness of the flies: the females are strictly monogamous. They mate only once with one male. Then they reject other suitors and concentrate on laying eggs. So Bushland raised a flock of flies on a mixture of blood and hamburger and irradiated them heavily with X rays. This treatment made them sterile. When the X-rayed males mated with fertile wild females, the females laid infertile eggs...
Since the X-ray process was expensive, Bushland is now experimenting at Oak Ridge with radioactive cobalt, a cheap source of sterilizing radiation. Soon he plans to go south and hatch clouds of flies out of washtubs full of hamburger. One pound of hamburger, he figures, is good for 500 flies...
Even harder to answer is whether the new drugs halt the disease long enough for the body to repair long-standing damage, especially in the lungs. So far, even with X rays, the answer is only hesitant: the drugs seem to restore the patient so that he should be better able to stand drastic surgery. And in many cases, surgery will still be necessary. So will bed rest and sanatoria. It is far too soon to talk about tearing down the hospitals...