The wonders which medical workers have already brought up
in the diagnosis and treatment of disease suggest that a time
1. ______ may come the physician will be able to analyze most
illnesses as 2. ______ soon as they start, and
cure them before damage results. How
soon this "golden age of healing" arrive will depend greatly on
3. ______ how close is the collaboration between
research workers in
medicine and those who work in the sciences which medicine
4. ______ depends. The physician has long
relied on the chemist for curative drugs, and on the physicist for diagnostic
instruments and healing rays. In the one field new materials and in the other
5. ______ new devices are being produced in
increasing numbers, helps to make
imminent new miracles of medicine.
6.
______ The X-ray and the microscope has extended the vision of
the medical observer
until he can see through ten inches of
living flesh or into a single tissue cell, yet similar but much
7. ______ more powerful tools still wait
development. Modem electrical
devices enable him to listen to faint murmurings of the life
8. ______ processes, or measure feeble currents
arising from heart and 9.
______ brain and nerve; so electrical body measurements are but little
10. ______ understood. Now new discovered atomic
rays are being brought to help him destroy malignant invaders of the human
system, and there is every reason to believe that even more curative
rays await discovery.