Word: lancet
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...Lancet. Outside a London newspaper office a crowd gathered last week, at first no more than a small, compact impediment in the current of the Strand's foot passengers, but swelling minute by minute until it bulged, a black protuberance, pulsing with a low, incessant fever and disordering the normal life of the street. Nobody jostled. Men and women stood silent, taken with the sick prescience that infects crowds in the apprehension of some great event -a declaration of war, the birth of a prince...
...event which this extraordinary gathering awaited was the distribution of the latest issue of a medical journal, the Lancet. Previous announcements (TIME, July 20), had informed them that in that journal would appear articles by Dr. W. E. Gye, a one-time ticket agent, by Mr. J. E. Barnard, a prosperous hatter, describing their attempts to isolate the cancer germ. Efforts to obtain advance copies of this gazette by judicious bribing of printers, proofreaders, carriers, had failed. The crowd waited. At 5:30 in the afternoon, the Lancet was issued...
...What the Lancet Said. Dr. Gye's report was long and highly technical. It described experiments with the tumors (cancers) of many animals. The conclusions he came to, as reported in the press, are these...
...furor in the business world over the publication of the amounts of income tax payments made by individuals and corporations came to a head, and the doctor was sent for with his lancet...
...worthy minister, a man must be fine all the way through, whether at home or in the church or in travel. A lawyer can be deeply immoral, and yet be an eminent jurist; a surgeon can be a scoundrel, and yet be very successful with the lancet. But a minister is in everybody's eyes, and must therefore be pure in every respect. If he falls once, his career is gone. And this realization that success lies in your char- acter is one of the greatest joys of a minister's life...