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...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Fake Madonna | 5/30/1955 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: X Rays and Lung Cancer | 10/4/1954 | See Source »

...family luxury; she drives a Cadillac. Dr. Starke's two-story clinic was laid out to fit his busy practice. The 40-seat waiting room is bigger than the doctor's office and examination rooms combined, though he has found space for almost $14,000 worth of Xray, hydrotherapy, physiotherapy and other specialized equipment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Negro in Florida | 1/14/1952 | See Source »

University education is mediocre, due first to overemphasis on sports, second to lack of a scale of values. The practical-minded American law schools turn out lawyers but no jurists. Medical schools emphasize laboratory and Xray, not European clinical methods of study...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COLOMBIA: Athenian View | 12/29/1947 | See Source »

...Navy had not flown far inland. The blank space beyond the South Pole was still the haziest, most mysterious area on anyone's map. It might be a featureless ice plain or it might be ridged with peaks higher than Mt. XRay...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Frozen Puzzle | 2/17/1947 | See Source »

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