Word: leukemias
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that dentists examine a lot of people who think that (except for tooth troubles) they are perfectly well. But the mouth is lined with delicate mucous membrane which often shows signs of deeper-lying ailments. If the dentist is alert and informed, he can spot hints of syphilis, leukemia, Addison's disease, many other ills. He is thus in a position to send the patient to a physician before unsuspected trouble becomes more dangerous...
According to these statistics, the most long-lived specialists are pathologists. Shortest (at nine-tenths of the general practitioners' rate): dermatologists, who have a high death rate from cancer and leukemia, possibly the result of continual exposure to X rays. Specialists in tuberculosis also have a bad rate, probably because they often start off with the disease...
...medicine was none too good, either. The scientific exhibit that won first prize (a gold medal) illustrated a method that might help victims of radiation. J. Garrott Allen and six co-workers at the University of Chicago Medical School were able to stop hemorrhage in people suffering from acute leukemia. (Hemorrhage is one of the reasons people die from radiation.) They used two drugs which worked equally well: toluidine blue, a tissue stain, and protamine sulfate, a protein compound. The doctors used the drugs on dogs that had fatal doses of X rays, and prolonged the dogs' lives...
...with leukemia, depressed by the state of the divided world, he began to doubt his basic premise. Last week, Geoffrey Pyke, 54, gave up, killed himself with an overdose of a barbiturate. It was the only unoriginal thing he had ever done...
Died. George E. Dietrich, 53, one of the McKesson & Robbins drug firm officers who swindled the firm out of about $11,000,000 in the late '30s; of leukemia; in Roslyn, L.I. Assistant Treasurer Dietrich (born Musica) worked with President F. Donald Coster (real name: Philip Musica) and two other brothers in the firm in the two-year embezzlement, but ratted on his brothers in court, escaped with a 2½-year prison sentence...