Show Freaks and Oddities In Science N News X-ray X discoveries offering new methods of protecting protecting pro pro- tho the health of women are being shown at atthe atthe atthe the Radiological Society of North America assembly assembly assembly assem assem- bly in St. St Louis Louts One Is X RAY PICTURES earlier detection of at cancer THAT REVEAL of the breast with X-ray X WOMEN'S pictures and the other use AFFLICTIONS of these pictures in a completely com com- harmless method of discovering expected motherhood almost at its beginning Breast cancer one of the special afflictions of oC women can be seen with the rays at an earlier stage than It can now be detected by any other method In this early stage the cancers are generally generally gen gen- regarded by the medical profession as read read- fly ily curable Fast films Urns show flesh as well as bones Expert study reveals re the meanings of the shadows x-rays x have ha been used for years ears to detect detec expected expected ex ex- motherhood but in the early stages some sort of internal coloring was needed to make the Picture pIcture apparent Dr A. A Jerome Thomas of Shreveport Louisiana has discovered how to do it with no more bother than sitting for an ordinary picture He began two years ago by making some unusual unusual unusual un un- un- un usual dolls all models of prenatal children patterned patterned pat pat- from life These he set up behind living persons and through their bodies took X-ray X pic pic- pic- pic tures turcs In this way he learned how to read the meanings of faint shadows which the new type X Xray Xray X- X ray films show in taking living persons The Tho real shadows proved to correspond very closely with those cast by the tho strange dolls In proof of the success of his experiments Dr Thomas is exhibiting many of his pictures Along with the exhibit are practical reports of oC various kinds of suffering which these pictures had relieved by giving physicians a more accurate idea of the sources of trouble X-ra X rays X-rays s 's properly used in childhood can save many children from growing up into Invalids ac according according according ac- ac cording to a report by Dr Douglas Douclas D. D Martin of Tampa Florida and Dr Leon T. T Lewald of New NewYork NewYork York university Until comparatively recently it was assumed that the digestive systems of or very young oung children are sufficiently near normal in structure not to cause worry The X-ray X now shows various sorts of interior cripples who can be made well ell if 11 taken in time Ume Dr Joseph Colt Bloodgood of Johns Hopkins university said that as a result of publishing correct correct correct cor cor- cor- cor information in the press and elsewhere the cures of cancer of oC bone have increased In one of the great clinics of this country from 4 per cent in 1920 to more than 25 per cent in 1930 The wide dissemination of information brought bone cancer sufferers earlier to medical treatment before be before before be- be fore it was too late to save them J |