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Many a dentist feels the same way-for example, Dr. Collins Aloysius LeMaster, who for 28 years practiced in St. Louis and for almost as long taught dental radiology (Xray technique) at St. Louis University. Some years ago, when dentists generally began to install their own X-ray outfits, Dr. LeMaster's laboratory business fell off. Then the "state medicine" bugaboo came along. Dr. LeMaster decided to get out of dentistry entirely...
...lies in one of the unexplored frequency bands in the vicinity of the X-ray." This was a bit too specific. Professor Arthur Holly Compton, the University of Chicago's famed radiation authority, stated that there are no unexplored frequency bands in the vicinity of the Xray...
Said she: "Unhealthy conditions, such as ulceration or inflammation which might lead to cancer, were found in about 25% of the volunteers. . . . Thus far, unsuspected early cancer has been found in four of the volunteers. These women have received adequate treatment, by operation . . . radium and Xray. I believe three of these women will be permanently cured. I am not so sure about the fourth...
...contemporary periodicals have had such an exciting career as McClure's Magazine. It launched the muckraking movement, first printed O. Henry and Willa Gather, popularized Stevenson, Kipling, Conan Doyle in the U. S., published the first magazine articles on the Xray, radium, Marconi's wireless, the Wrights' flying machine, paved the way for modern, big-circulation magazines...
...Only three scientific means of treating cancer are Xray, surgery and radium. But by these three methods physicians have cured 30,000 cases of cancer in the last five years...