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Case 2.?The patient was a teacher, aged 50. She complained of stiffness in the limbs, pain in the back, great exhausition, weakened memory and great mental depression. On July 22, 1922, one X-ray treatment was given. A few days later she felt very well. The backache had disappeared, and she said that she could walk without any great discomfort? for the first time in several months. She had a distinct feeling of physical strength and energy...
...Benjamin is a glandular specialist and in 20% of his cases uses a serum from goats' glands. In the other 80%, however, the X-ray treatment is used. The majority of patients are school teachers and nurses who feel the need of renewed energy to carry on their work. In many cases hair which has turned gray is supplanted by hair of the original color...
...Atherton, aged 67, discussing the X-ray treatment, said...
...world, and none, I think, in the United States. President Eliot has witnessed the development of railways, of steamships, of ironclad, of submarines, of airplanes, of breech-loading guns, of the telegraph, of the telephone, of two-cent postage, of radio, of automobiles, of newspapers, of X-ray, of elevators, of skyscrapers and, last but not least, of golf. And at the end of it all I found him, a day or two ago, an enthusiastic and even exuberant optimist. From his severe and prolonged ordeal he emerges with faith unshaken in God and man. He left on my mind...
...bright ray however which penetrates the gloom of the catastrophe is the fact that the proctor was not robbed. Possibly the astute burglar realized his inability to cope with such a man. Possibly he was so burdened with spoils already that he hesitated to endanger his pockets with more. But perhaps the circumstance that the proctor's door was locked had something to do with it. It appears that his was almost the only door which was locked, and to a sensitive criminal, the hospitality of the generous students who magnificently left their doors open must have been infinitely more...