Word: breasts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...strange blend of Christian religion and primitive superstition Angel Sanchez had conceived a powerful devotion for the miracle-working Virgin of El Quinche. A dark, fanatical-looking mestizo, Sanchez even wore a medal of the Virgin pinned through the flesh of his breast. But last week he was locked up ia a Quito jail, charged with stealing the jewels from the highland village shrine where he had worshiped...
...jail in Quito last week, Sanchez, still burning with fever, said: "My conscience troubles me continuously, and at every moment I remember what I did." Fingering the Virgin's medal at his breast, he sighed: "I do not believe any longer the Virgin will take me out of jail; maybe some charitable person will have mercy on my bitter situation...
Among his patients, reports New York Gynecologist Robert T. Frank in the current Journal of the American Medical Association, "a large number are fear-stricken and panicky . . . They may . have been told tactlessly by their physician that they have a tumor in the breast, ovary or womb which requires immediate operation. [They] may resist all attempts to convince them that the condition is harmless, nonmalignant and does not require operation...
Harry C. Saltzstein and Robert S. Pollack report on fear of cancer of the breast. 'There are, perhaps, few conditions which cause as much anxiety and worry to the patient as do tumors of the breast. There are deep . . . reasons which make the thought of loss of the breast terrifying to the average woman...
Recent publicity about cancer, the two doctors declare, "seems to focus on a lump in the breast." Five years ago Saltzstein and Pollack got only the more serious cases, so that they performed as many operations for cancer as for "benign" (nonmalignant) tumors. Nowadays, women with less serious ailments rush in for consultation, and the doctors are performing twice as many operations for benign tumors as for cancer. And almost half the women who rush in, the doctors find, need no surgery...