Word: bone
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...guard suddenly became aware of one Joe Fatigate, 25, habitual brawler, at the far end of the hall. From Joe Fatigate's forehead projected the bone handle of a penitentiary table knife. The 4-in. blade of the knife was neatly buried within the man's brain...
Early this year the Medical Society of New York County suspended Dr. Fred Houdlett Albee because the doctors believed that this famed bone surgeon had unethically helped the Seaboard Air Line Railway to publicize his big new sanatorium at Venice, Fla. (TIME, May 21). Dr. Albee denied the charge, claimed that the county society had no real evidence against him, brought suit in a civil court for reinstatement...
...himself: ''CANCER SPECIALIST using the ANTITOXIN that has CURED the worst cancers known." Although his "antitoxin" is the stuff which Dr. William Frederick Koch, a discredited Detroit physician, exploits, the specious idea behind it skulks in the shadow of the very real cures of certain kinds of bone cancer which Dr. Coley has been able to make with a toxin...
...desperate attempt to combat the inevitable." Dr. Coley is 72, and still in active practice. For 41 years he was attending surgeon in Manhattan's Memorial Hospital. He has written extensively on cancer. He still believes that an invisible germ prepares the way for cancers of the bone. But he does not know just how his mixture of erysipelas and prodigiosus toxins counteracts any such germ. Nonetheless the fluid works. Not a cureall, it has proved effective in a large percentage of inoperable bone cancers. According to last week's AMA Journal, Dr. Christian Jacobsen...
...since 1913. He yanked up his drilling rig 400 ft. short of oil under what later became another flush and fabulous pool, the Seminole. But he made a strike here & there, and by 1927 was drilling in East Texas in an area which geologists unanimously condemned as bone dry. On Oct. 4, 1930 he brought in a gusher. Today the Texas Railroad Commission, which attempts to control the flood, estimates that if each & every one of the 14,000 wells in the East Texas Field were opened wide for one hour, they would produce more oil than the whole...