Word: bone
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...apparent cure of a case of bone cancer by means of arsenic warranted reporting in the current issue of the Canadian Medical Association Journal. A Toronto woman, Mrs. R- F-, had a cancer on her left thigh bone. High voltage X-ray treatment for eight months produced no observable good...
...originated the preparation of colloidal arsenic. Putting the stuff into Mrs. R- F-'s veins was a risky business. Arsenic, used medicinally to improve the blood's condition, is a poison. The woman with cancer in her leg approved the risk. Three months later the broken bone mended itself. Today, a year & a half after beginning the colloidal arsenic treatment, "the patient is in good health, free from pain, and is carrying on her usual household duties...
Jean-Louis Forain is by no means the only artist Mr. Wiggin collects. He boasts the most-complete-in-the-world collections of three famed Scotch etchers: James McBey, Muirhead Bone, Sir David Young Cameron. Among his hundreds of miscellaneous prints is the famed "Hundred Guilder Print" of Rembrandt's "Christ Healing the Sick...
BRED IN THE BONE-Eden Phillpotts-Macmillan...
...fashioned dignity and dialectal fidelity reminiscent of the late great Thomas Hardy, he tells a gruesome tale that may remind more than one reader of its prototype, Macbeth. Character is Destiny, Author Phillpotts believes. On this text he is writing a three-decker novel, of which Bred in the Bone is the first part...