Medicine: Colored X-Rays

Dean Milton Charles Winternitz of Yale's Medical School was as happy as any preceptor could be last week. One of his proteges, Luther George Simjian, had just announced perfection of a device which: 1) produces colored x-ray images of internal organs, 2) visualizes highly transparent organs, 3) utilizes harmless, weak x-ray beams. 4) allows the colored images to "be sent by wire to any place the examining doctor may be.

Inventor Simjian conceived the apparatus while he was director of the Medical School's photographic laboratories. Leaving Yale, the well-to-do young Armenian built...

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