Word: curing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...alarm, constantly increases. In Clinical Medicine & Surgery last week Dr. Isador Simon Trostler, Chicago roentgenologist, trotted out a few fundamental rules which, if scrupulously observed by doctors, he thought, might stem the tide of malpractice suits. Gist of his advice: ¶Never under any circumstances promise a cure or use language which might be construed as such a promise...
...continued to ignore him by failing to give him a place in their cancer symposium. Dr. Donald Church Balfour of Rochester, Minn., the ingoing president of the College, anticipating Dr. Coffey's argument, simply said: "Cancer is curable if it is removed while it is a local disease. Cure of cancer by advertised extracts, serums, and so forth is a myth...
...Connell's side of the scales of medical opinion, however, was the history of insulin, cure for diabetes, discovered by young Dr. Frederick Grant Banting and his student helper, Charles Herbert Best, at Toronto, 100 miles from Kingston, despite the impatience of their Uni-versity of Toronto superiors. Dr. Connell also had an assistant, Bertram J. Hols-grove, 31, whose initial job had been to wash test tubes and dishes. The pair regularly worked 14 to 16 hours daily. Dr. Connell abandoned his profitable eye-ear-nose-&-throat practice. Some apostolic members of Queen's University medical faculty...
...Carter Wood, director of Manhattan's Institute of Cancer Research: "Nothing in Dr. Connell's results, as published, contains anything which could not have occurred spontaneously. All of the things he described we see every day in the cancer wards. It is useless to speak of a cure for cancer on treatments running only over a few months. Five years is the established minimum time for a cure to be regarded as a cure...
...ounce of provention is worth a pound of cure, particularly when a termite invasion threatens. Following out its policy of rendering itself secure against local-influences, the University has again put its foot down on the termite advance with the placing of steel and concrete blocks in the foundations and cortain basement partitions in Sever Hall...