Word: cancer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...draft text of a law authorizing vivisection of humans in an effort to discover a cure for cancer was unanimously approved, last week, by the board of National Sanitation at Havana, Cuba, and sent to the Cuban Congress for debate, action...
Criminals condemned to Death would be offered, under the law, a free choice between execution and inoculation with cancer. Twelve years would be the legal period of vivisection, and if, at the end of that time, the patient survived and had been cured he or she would return to society purged of guilt and perhaps honored as a hero, heroine...
While Cuba was thus preparing for direct, ruthless action, half way measures were again discussed, last week in London, by experts from 24 nations gathered for the International Cancer Conference...
...Cancer Cause. Four hundred medical men listened intently to Dr. James Bumgardner Murphy, life member at Rockefeller Institute, as he described the experiments leading to his theory that cancer is caused by a ferment inside the body. The adherents of Dr. William Ewart Gye, famed propounder of the virus theory (TIME, July 27, 1925) were antagonistic; Dr. Archibald Leitch of the London Cancer Hospital, whose experiments corroborated Researcher Murphy's, approved...
Curious doctors at the General Hospital heard the rumor, saw patients who had been given up as hopeless comfortably chatting in the streets. They came to see this Polsjchak, who told them of his remedy. For 20 years he had been studying tuberculosis and cancer, just as the neighbors said. Now he had invented a medicine which he called "abjinin," a mixture of vegetable juices and etheric oils which would cure internal cancer in three to six months; cutaneous cancer in a matter of weeks. The doctors were impressed. They invited Polsjchak to work at the hospital. So satisfactory were...