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...experimenting with the X-ray row and hope to reach definite conclusions this summer. If we are successful a sure way of detecting forgeries in the old and supposedly valuable pictures. This will eliminate the current doubt and expense, which is so deleterious to collectors and experts today. Another great question, whose ghost our experiments if successful would lay is as to whether or not it is worth while to clean old and retouched pictures...
...female such blocking off is very difficult, practically impossible. Yet results comparable to those from the Steinach operation on men have been obtained for women by use of the Xray. The X-ray is extremely penetrating, throws shadows of the anatomy on suitably placed photographic films, which the physician may study for better diagnosis. To get such a photograph the patient is exposed to the rays for only some seconds. Prolonged exposure causes. destruction of tissue. So this latter phenomenon physicians use to devitalize cancerous growths-and on the ovaries to bring on artificial menopause...
...theorized, would slow up or stop the ova production of a patient and at the same time permit the continued creation of the sex hormones, stimulate the women. In the U. S. Dr. Harry Benjamin cautiously put this theory to practice. He uses a stimulation dose of X-ray one-seventh to one-tenth as strong as needed to produce erythema (redness). His conservative decision was that moderate, carefully regulated exposures of the ovarian sites to the X-rays induced good body and mental tone and vigor...
...photo-electric cell, much more sensitive than the selenium cells hitherto used with indifferent results. The inventor of the cell was one Dr. Carolus, who had based his work on the so-called Kerr method of influencing polarized light so that high voltage produces a strong light ray, low voltage a weak ray. The Carolus cell, which was not described in despatches, transformed light to electricity not only more completely but more swiftly than other cells. It was claimed that complete photographs, not wavy-lined blurs like those published after the London-New York tests of 1924 and the Hawaii...
Wallace Beery alone is excepted from all this criticism. He was immense. His comically stupid face was never for one moment marred by the slightest ray of intelligence. His ample army pants were held up by a rope around the waist, giving to their lower portions a curious baggy appearance suggestive of small boys in grammar school. He was forever waddling about through the sets on mischief bent, for all the world like a fat sow hunting out choice bits of garbage Without him the picture would be a dud, with him it was able to make this reviewer disgrace...