Word: leukemias
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...kindly old doctor who plays solitaire, the desiccated matron in black who hatches plots, the wife of the sanatorium's chief who likes to have her virtue sullied by the hero of the piece. Reasonably well acted, Jupiter Laughs could be diagnosed as a sad case of dramatic leukemia...
After a patient wait, death came last week to Hans Zinsser, bacteriologist, physician, philosopher, poet, ironist, historian, raconteur. At 61, he died of chronic leukemia, a slow-moving, mysterious disease of the blood for which there is no known cure...
...ship board turned him not healthy brown but lemon yellow. He knew then that there was something serious the matter with his blood. Back in Boston, he consulted a colleague and friend, who told him, with "affectionate abstinence from any expression of sympathy," that he had leukemia. Looking out at the white sails on the Charles River, Zinsser realized that he was going to die. A great lover of life, he began soon to fall in love with death...
...Harvard Physics and Medical Departments are constantly experimenting with more and surer applications of these artificially radioactive elements to the treatment of such diseases as Leukemia and Hodgkins' disease...
Mice & Men. Leukemia is a blood disease in which white blood cells proliferate wildly, invade organs and tissues. At the Department of Genetics, Dr. Edwin Carleton MacDowell and his co-workers found that leukemia is not transmitted by a bacterium or virus, that it is a malignant disorder resembling cancer. Moreover, they discovered that some mice could be made immune by shooting into them leukemic cells inactivated by mild heat (115° F.). So far, this work has not produced a cure for leukemia in man, but may lead to one eventually...