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...Professor Charles Valliant was recently declared the winner of a prize of 15,000 francs, awarded by the Academy of Moral and Political Sciences for heroism in the cause of science. He was chosen because, after repeated operations, he has sacrificed both his arms in experimenting with the X-ray. But the Academy has now been obliged to withdraw its award, because Professor Vailliant is physically unable to sign for the money...
...ray, remarkable though its effects have been in modern science, has made martyrs of many of its students. The whole history of progress is marked by similar sacrifices, the acts of heroes most of whom have suffered in obscurity and silence, and who have usually been neglected in the records of heroism. The story of the voluntary victims to malaria, who allowed the disease to run its course with them so that a serum could be found and the tropics made safe for white men, was one of the first to become widely known. But there have been many like...
...dispatch is to be credited, there is a sharp difference between the French society and the American. Where one was held back by the flimsiest red tape from giving an earned award, the other has recently gone to the opposite extreme, as the same news-item relates. Another X-ray scholar was Dr. Adolph Leray, who died a slow death in the same cause. The Carnegie Foundation has awarded 40,000 francs for his sacrifice, and has paid the award to his widow...
...this purpose by the Harvard Cancer Commission in the new John Collins Warren laboratory, opened last spring adjoining the Huntington Memorial Hospital. This bequest is expected to make possible a much more thorough and detailed investigation of the constitutional effects of radiation, and especially of the high-power X-ray machine designed by Professor William Duane and installed in the new laboratory for the treatment of cancer cases...
...sheets of printed paper, giving directions for their use, and telling why the brand in question is better than that furnished by any other manufacturer. Groceries come enclosed with recipes for cooking them. Advertising is carried on in every conceivable place, and the only force which causes a ray of hope is the "movies", and they after all, only convert a story of words into a story of action, without improving on the literary tone...