Word: xray
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...suffering from "stomach trouble" are given routine gastroscopic examinations. Although the flexible gastroscope is an aid to the X-ray rather than a substitute for it, it enables a properly-trained physician to discover tiny ulcers and tumors which have just begun to grow and cannot be detected by Xray. The gastroscope has also demonstrated the frequency of chronic inflammation of the stomach...
...Culler's research programs has resulted in a tentative explanation of a bizarre phenomenon known as the "XRay Effect." Several clinicians had noticed that when human heads were exposed to X-rays, a temporary improvement in hearing frequently occurred. Dr. Culler confirmed and explained this phenomenon. Studying X-rayed dogs, he found that the irradiation weakened the pituitary control of the pancreas, which thereupon released more insulin in the blood. The insulin excess lowered the blood's sugar content, which in turn lowered the density and viscosity of the fluids in the hearing mechanism of the inner...
...people claimed they had broken teeth, bruised gums or damaged their digestion on stones, twigs, wires and nails that slipped by Oh Henry! inspectors. Last year, General's President George Huhn Williamson, following the example of W. F. Schrafft & Sons Co., installed two $3.000 Adrian fluoroscopes (Xray machines), routed as many as 40,000 boxes of Oh Henry! bars through them a day. With claims cut in half, Confectioner Williamson, last week, had two more machines installed...
...medical student, export manager of a smelting company at Union, N. J., an assistant professor of mathematics in Bombay, manager of Bombay's first cinemansion, a commander in the New York Police Air Service, a mechanical engineer in Punjab, a law student, editor, lecturer on Xray. He has also been an inmate of Leavenworth Penitentiary. Paroled by Calvin Coolidge after helping to foil a jail break, King of Duty Ghadiali was almost deported as an Oriental alien in 1934, reinstated as a citizen by Franklin Roosevelt within the last year. He is now head of the "Spectro-Chrome Institute...
...equalize risks, members are admitted to Associated Hospital Service only in blocks of ten. After they join, they may bring in their spouses and children by paying 3?-a-day insurance for each. For their $10 a year members get up to 21 days bed, board, examinations (including Xray) and treatment in a hospital, if their doctors order it. Patients pay their doctors separately. If a member has an accident anywhere in the U. S. or Canada outside the New York area and is taken to a local hospital, the New York service pays part of his hospital bill...