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...minuscule amounts, they settle in specific organs for a brief time, then can be traced in their journey through the body, providing a clue to the process of growth and repair; 2) in larger doses they settle in the organs for a longer time. There, like radium or Xray, they destroy cancers...
...Pauline Stemmer, 45-year-old housewife of North Brunswick Township, N. J., felt sick and dizzy. She went to see Dr. William Klein, well-known radiologist of New Brunswick. He found a walnut-sized tumor in her uterus, advised her to have it removed by Xray. She went to St. Peter's General Hospital, of which Dr. Klein was president, and had three irradiations...
Deep-seated cancers can sometimes be treated by Xray, but the treatment sometimes proves dangerous, because the X-ray may injure normal tissue. Doctors have tried to find an X-ray substitute which would hit only the diseased target and not ricochet. Last week Dr. John Meredith Kenney of Manhattan's famed Memorial...
...seemed to Dr. Raab that angina might be licked if the adrenals of angina patients could be prevented from flooding the body with adrenalin. After a decade of experiment he finally worked out the idea of weakening adrenal tissue by Xray...
Fellowship System. Every six months Memorial takes on nine young physicians for a six-month trial, selects one or two for three-year fellowships. After working in eight clinical services, assisting in at least 300 different operations, taking special courses in Xray, radium, pathology, they go to the far corners of the earth to crusade against mankind's No. 2 killer...