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...Gastro-Photor"-graphs taken inside the stomach of a suspected cancer sufferer turned out well, according to Philadelphia's Hahnemann Hospital. But what they showed, doctors refused to reveal.- ED. Fat "Cures...
...internal discomfort, Henry Harrington's pains might indicate cancer. But with x-ray there was no way to tell until the cancer should attain a considerable mass. Last week Dr. John Falenks of Manhattan went to the physicians' aid with something new to the U. S. Named "Gastro-Photo," it was a stomach camera invented in Vienna by F. G. Bach and Dr. D. J. Heilpern, already in use at the University of Vienna's Wenckel Bach Clinic...
Physicians led lanky Henry Harrington into an operating room, stood him up against a wall. Patient Harrington took a look at the Gastro-Photo, grew nervous. "Open your mouth wide," commanded Dr. Falenks, forthwith thrusting into his mouth a metal cylinder two inches long and one-half inch thick, attached to a long rubber tube. Punctured by 16 pinholes, the cylinder contained a tiny flash bulb and two pieces of film...
...Falenks, would show humps as whitish and holes as dark blurs, thus reveal the first sign of cancer or ulcer. Philadelphia physicians withheld comment until the films should be developed. But everyone knows that the sooner a cancer is discovered and treated the better. Dr. Falenks was sure the Gastro-Photo marked a noteworthy advance in the incessant cancer...
...been suffering from dehydration, were unable to take water by mouth because of vomiting. Subcutaneous injections of about a tumblerful of saline solution were prescribed. By mistake, the nurse administered a 2% boric acid solution. In six hours the three babies had boric acid intoxication. They died of acute gastro enteritis and nephritis. Not until the New York Medical Examiner's office received the death reports were the facts made public. The hospital withheld the nurse's name, said that she had four years' experience, had been prostrated after discovering her error. The District Attorney...