Medicine: Beauty's Bones

At the Century of Progress exhibit of the Chicago Roentgen Ray Society, Dr. Hollis Elmer Potter, Chicago x-ray specialist, last week hung the first full-length, full-size, one-piece x-ray photograph of the complete human body ever put on display (see cut). X-ray technicians heretofore have made composite pictures of the whole body. The Chicago exhibit was the result of a single, one-second exposure to x-rays.

The model for the Chicago picture is a pretty Rochester, N. Y. girl who occasionally poses for Eastman Kodak advertisements. She is 20, weighs 115 lb., wears a size...

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