X-RAY DANGERS
GENETIC PRECAUTIONS NECESSARY NEW YORK, April 1. As a precaution against abnormal development of life, men exposed to heavy radiations such as X-ray should refrain from attempting fatherhood for two months thereafter, declared Dr Herman J. Muller, winner of the Nobel Prize for 1946 for the discovery that X-ray may produce a biological change in the species. He said radiologists should see that they • and their patients, even by-standers, were protected genetically from scattered radiation
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Evening Star, Issue 26067, 3 April 1947, Page 8
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77X-RAY DANGERS Evening Star, Issue 26067, 3 April 1947, Page 8
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