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Show New Tests Will Help Doctors Determine Illness Since April 1, a number of new I services that enable the doctors to better diagnose their patients have been inaugurated at the Latter-day Saints Hospital in Roosevelt. Roose-velt. According to Ray Summers, assistant as-sistant manager of the hospital, two of these services a hematology hema-tology and urology test will be given every patient who enters the hospital. Other special services include a glucqse tolerance test, a blood chemistry report, a throat smears test and veneral disease tests. New X-ray equipment and facilities have been added to the hospital, and also complete transfusion trans-fusion work will now be carried on, A hematology test consists of several tests on the patient's blood, among which is included total red and white cell count. Several tests to examine the urine of a patient, such as testing for amount of sugar and albumin, and whether it is acid, alkaline or neutral, make up the urinalysis report. All children will be subjected sub-jected to the throat smears test, which will better enable the physician phys-ician to detect the type of illness. Prior to the beginning of the new system at the hospital, all veneral disease, Blood Chemistry and Glucose Tolerance tests were made in Salt Lake City. With new equipment installed and the new system functioning, these tests can now be made in the local hospital. The blood chemistry test is another examination given a patient pa-tient to more firmly determine the disease or cause of affliction. In the glucose tolerance test, the patient's blood and urine are examined ex-amined to determine the amount of sugar content. |