Word: cancered
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...almost always between 20 and 40. They feel weak all over; their stomachs are irritable; their blood pressure is low; and, most notably, their skin deepens in color. They usually die during a fainting spell. The notable pigmentation is deceptive. Many another condition causes similar discoloring: pregnancy, constipation, cancer, chronic stomach ulcers, abdominal growths, pernicious anemia. Affection, most often tuberculosis, of the suprarenal glands, is the cause of Addison's disease. The glands are two small bodies, shaped like cocked hats and one perched at the top of each kidney. Each gland is made up of a cortex...
...been estimated that directly or in directly . . . [malaria] is responsible for more than half of the deaths of the human race."?Professor Herbert Harold Waite of the University of Nebraska, in his Disease Prevention. However, prime U. S. killers are heart disease, cancer, pneumonia...
...late husband. Nathan Straus had said: "When you give at death it is lead; when you give in sickness it is silver; when you give in health it is gold." Mrs. Conners believes that San Francisco's Drs. Walter Bernard Coffey and John Davis Humber can cure cancer with an extract of the adrenal glands, although the medical profession has been skeptical of "cure" and the doctors themselves insist that they have only an experimental promise (TIME, April 28 et ante). Last week Mrs. Conners summoned them to Manhattan, offered them her $1,000,000 Long Island estate...
...Cancer eradication requires, in the first instance, five or six great research institutions, each costing at least $10,000,000, established at strategic points throughout the U. S.-Dr. James Ewing, Manhattan...
Electro-Surgery, the use of a cauterizing knife, is as far ahead of scalpel surgery "as the modern electric tram is ahead of the lumbering horse car."-Dr. Howard Atwood Kelly, Baltimore. It permits elegant excision of cancer ramifications and delicate areas of the brain. It may permit operations of the spinal cord. But President-elect Allen Buckner Kanavel, Chicago, pointed out that coagulation caused by the cautery is more likely to scatter malignant growths than to retard or destroy them...