Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site mcnc.mcnc.UUCP Path: utzoo!decvax!genrad!panda!talcott!harvard!seismo!gatech!akgua!mcnc!bch From: bch@mcnc.UUCP (Byron Howes) Newsgroups: net.med Subject: Re: The topics that were requested... Message-ID: <724@mcnc.mcnc.UUCP> Date: Sat, 17-Aug-85 23:26:14 EDT Article-I.D.: mcnc.724 Posted: Sat Aug 17 23:26:14 1985 Date-Received: Mon, 19-Aug-85 14:36:25 EDT References: <1849@aecom.UUCP> <319@kitty.UUCP> Reply-To: bch@mcnc.UUCP (Byron Howes) Distribution: na Organization: North Carolina Educational Computing Service Lines: 18 In article <319@kitty.UUCP> larry@kitty.UUCP (Larry Lippman) writes: > Anyone remember the unregulated x-ray machines that shoe stores used >as a fad in the 40's and 50's? I used to look forward to getting shoes as a >kid so I could watch my bones wiggle... I shudder to think how many REM's >those suckers gave to unsuspecting people. I remember them well. I also enjoyed looking at the bones in my feet. While I haven't developed food cancer I've often wondered if there was any relationship between them and my lifelong battle with athlete's foot fungi. Does somebody know if, in fact, there is some kind of correlation between exposure to those devices and cancer of the bones in the foot? -- Byron C. Howes ...!{decvax,akgua}!mcnc!ecsvax!bch