Word: leucemia
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Died, Dr. Adolph Monaelesser, 79, surgeon-in-chief of the American Red Cross during the Spanish-American War, later researcher in the therapeutic effects of snake venom in cancer and nerve ailments;* of chronic leucemia, possibly the result of inhaling particles of powdered cobra venom in 1930; in Manhattan...
East View, N. Y.-Roma Garrett, 4, is slowly dying of leucemia. . . . Physicians have abandoned hope of saving her life. Union City, N. J.-Theodora Alosio, 4, a victim of leucemia, was gravely ill. The child's life had been prolonged by four blood transfusions. . . . She died while her parents stood beside her. Memphis, Tenn.-Four-year-old Willie Mae Miller died today on a hospital operating table where she had been rushed for a hurried examination after a relapse at her home. There was a gasp of pain, then a fleeting little smile. She slumped back...
...gold medal, went neither to the biggest, nor the neatest, nor the cleverest, nor the most learned presentation. Jacob Furth, an immunologist at the Henry Phipps Institute of the University of Pennsylvania, a onetime worker at the Rockefeller Institute, won the gold medal for his demonstration of experimental leucemia. Leucemia is a blood disease closely resembling cancer. The blood contains abnormally vast numbers of white blood cells. Usually the spleen and liver are hugely enlarged. Bone marrow is usually affected. Dr. Furth isolated a virus from leucemic chickens. The virus stimulated leucemia in other chickens. He got a virus from...