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...Miracle seekers. Example: a Negro woman with cancer of the breast who covered herself with a "prayer cloth" each day for six months before seeking medical care. Now near death, she "believes that the failure of the prayer cloth was due to her sins." 2) The uninformed. One businessman did not know the difference between an M.D. and other self-styled "doctors...
...researchers from 46 other nations listened attentively as Professor Alexander Savittski of the U.S.S.R. Academy of Science reported that 1) in the Soviet Union, "65% of malignant tumors have been cured"; 2) preventive examinations of the entire population over 35 years of age have resulted in "total elimination" of breast and uterine cancer in certain areas...
...most promising was a "desexed" hormone used by Urologist Charles B. Huggins of the University of Chicago. He reported that he had stripped the hydrogen atom from the sex-hormone molecule, thus ridding it of the power to masculinize or feminize, then administered it to women with advanced breast cancer. The sexless hormones, Huggins hopes, can block the normal female hormones that stimulate breast cancer...
...cadavers." Writes Hecht nostalgically of those days: "That was happiness." The weakness of Hecht's armor was that it left him in sketchy underwear whenever he took it off. Like many an other supposedly invulnerable fellow, he was exposed, when in the buff, as more of a maudlin breast-beater than a Front Page chesty. Swept up by the Chicago literary movement just before World War I, he tried to temper his fondness for cadavers with pious offerings at the shrine of The Little Review. In its inner circle a young man might hear anything from a first reading...
...folded into bed with "a man with a large mustache." Beside the bed sat a second gent, waiting his turn. Poor Hecht fled "this hellish sight"-but not without recalling appropriate words of Swinburne: 0 lips full of lust and of laughter, Curled snakes that are fed from my breast...