Medicine: Gastro-Photo

Henry Harrington's internal life has not been happy. For 18 of his 45 years he has had pains in his stomach. Last month he entered Philadelphia's Hahnemann Hospital, where physicians at first thought his left kidney might be displaced. Then an x-ray showed a growth in his stomach. But on an x-ray plate exposed a week later the growth had disappeared. The physicians were stumped. As may any prolonged internal discomfort, Henry Harrington's pains might indicate cancer. But with x-ray there was no way to tell until the cancer should attain a...

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