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Sportswriters called him "the ballplayer Ring Lardner missed," and when Yogi was beaned in Detroit, the papers reported: "Xray pictures of Berra's head showed nothing." Rival players hung by one hand from the dugout roof when he came to bat, scratching their armpits with the other. "Hey, Yog," they yelled. "You still sleeping in trees?" One opposing catcher used to watch Yogi step into the batting cage, then bellow: "Quick, men! Shut the gate! You got him." TV even got into the act with a "Yogi Bear" cartoon series about an animal that walks like...
Arteriograms (Xray still photos of arteries that have been flooded with radiopaque dye) help, but they are not always reliable: the "flooding" technique often fails to fill the arteries with enough dye, and still pictures do not clearly separate small vessels that are superimposed on each other. One of the major breakthroughs at last week's AHA meeting came when the Cleveland Clinic's Drs. Earl Shirey and F. Mason Sones Jr. demonstrated a diagnostic technique that seems likely to improve on the arteriogram-a method of coordinating the ray, a specially designed catheter and a movie camera...
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...