Word: xray
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Exhaustive Author Jones counts no fewer than 33 operations (plus endless Xray, radium and diathermy treatments) over the next 16 years. One of the more unusual operations: Freud had himself sterilized (by tying off the major sperm ducts) on the chance that a changed hormone production might retard the growth of the cancer. There is no evidence that it had any such effect...
Ever since the "Xray martyrs" of the early 1900s showed that radiation could set off damage or destruction of tissues that might go on for years, medical researchers have been trying to find a way to arrest or reverse the process. To do so is particularly important in cancer patients, whose normal tissues may be damaged by X rays passing through them to reach a cancer. For many disappointing years the researchers had little luck...
Only old faithfuls that oldtimers would recognize: Charlie, Mike, Victor, Xray...
...many Renaissance paintings," and "the anatomy, e.g., of the Virgin's eye socket ... is better understood and more determinedly modeled." When the British press turned the dispute into a guessing game, the National Gallery decided it was time to put its Francia through a threefold lab test: Xray, infra-red and microscopic analysis...
...lung cancer do not submit to surgery promptly after diagnosis, so they get no benefit from the procedure. Worst of all, surgery adds but little to the life expectancy in most cases. Concluded Dr. Garland: "The yield in lives actually saved or even made more comfortable by this [Xray] program . . . appears to be so small that one cannot urge its imposition on the general public...