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Show YOUR HEALTH V OR t H. CISHOF I I si. Ol 1HL X-UA1 When we ston to count th- manyj uses of the X-ray lt Is hard to realise just what w did before lt was known. I And yet this is not so very long ago ' Tlnv was when a Dhvsklan. in set-' ting a broken bone, had to "feel" his va around the broken limb until he found the fracture. This caused great pain. Now tne doctor can "see what he Is doing, thus Insuring absolute abso-lute accuracy in the setting process The risk of a deformed limb is reduced re-duced thus to a minimum Again, by means of the X-ray, tho process of digestion can be follow l from the tlnio the food Is swallowed until it reaches the Intestines. Sometimes Some-times It reveals conditions in ihe stomach which cause dyspepsia, not only making its cure possible, but also permitting prevention of more serious Ills that might follow L'ntil tin- X-rav came into use such diseases as ulceration and cancers sometimes existed unknown 'o patient pa-tient or flhyslcian until It became too late to cure them Now the doctor can locate an ulcer or cancer in th Btoinacb,, however small, and it can be remuve,. Even the smallest contractions of the heart can be studied under tho X-rav. The pulse has been round to be very inaccurate as an indication cf the heart-beat. It mav rceister only to beats a minute while the' heart mav be wearing-itself out beat-) lag as often as 160 times every ;o seconds. f j Another important use of the X-ray Is in determining the v xart location of " foreign bodies." Frequentl) children chil-dren swallow such things as tin whis- ties, buttons .safetv pins and the like.: Phei probablv cough at the time an 1 then the iiuVdent Is oulte forgotten.; Lat'r, howejfer, more serious symptoms symp-toms ma) develop. and tbe X-ray rinds thch cause in the esophagus or gullet and It can tben be removed |