Salt Lake Telegram | 1932-06-24 | Page 19 | X-Ray Death due to Speeding up of Living Rate

X Ray Death Due To Speeding Up Of Living Rate SYRACUSE N Y June 24 W- W P Discovery of a form of X-ray X death due wholly to speeding up the rate of living was described to the American Amer Arner- lean ican Association tion for the Advancement Advancement Advancement Advance Advance- ment of Science today The deaths are arc those of single cells ceils of the human body killed by X The discovery may prove useful in understanding more about how these rays ras destroy some forms of human cancer Most authorities have hn held that X-rays X killed body cells the cells the minute particles forming living flesh and bone bone in in the ordinary sense of the word This is not the fact Professor sor Raphael Isaacs of the University of Michigan reported He is associate associate associate asso asso- professor of medicine He watched the cells from the blood bone muscles and other parts of the body under lethal X The rays speeded them up he said so so that they grew crew old rapidly and died of ot old age nce Each successive stage of growing older can be seen very easily in the blood cells Nothing happens to the cells which would not have happened to them if it they had lived their normal normal nor nor- mal lives except that the X-rays X make them go O through the process somewhat faster taster rays X-rays act then by hurrying the onset of ot old age and not b by killing directly