Word: test
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...Sidney Rothbard put the technique to wide practical use at Montefiore Hospital in The Bronx. Last week he reported at a meeting of the New York Tuberculosis and Health Association that on 1,200 serum samples from 950 patients the test was 92.3% accurate. "This test," said he, "gives the doctors a new tool. It should not be thought of as a test to displace the X ray or any other standard method...
...advantages of the new and sharper tool were obvious. Unlike routine chest X rays, the serum test will disclose tuberculosis in other parts of the body besides the lungs. An X ray shows lung spots, but the serum test helps to determine whether the spots are healed tuberculosis scars or other lung diseases such as cancer, abscess, pneumonia or silicosis...
...simplicity for patient and doctor, the serum test closely resembles the Wassermann test for syphilis. Its originators recommended that doctors use it the same way: take the blood sample and send it to a laboratory, instead of trying to complete the process themselves...
Talbott is now making a new test: showing women photographs of shoe clerks to see which sales faces they like and dislike. He expects to prove that "certain types of faces should be kept in the rear...
...Test-Tube Triumphs. Chemist Greenewalt was well aware that Du Pont's continued growth depended on "aggressive research and . . . the development of new products." It was neglecting neither: on research, it had laid out $33 million in 1949, turned up an impressive array of promising new products. Among them...