Word: cancer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Cancer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72.3 71.1 Automobile accidents . . . . . . . . . . . 18.1 16.5 Suicides . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13.4 12.3 Unspecified respiratory diseases . . 11.4 11.1 Diphtheria . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5.9 5.1 Meningitis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3.8 2.9 Unspecified external causes . . . . . . . 42.2 40.8 -- -- Total . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167.1 159.8 -- -- Grand Total...
...sample promise: A quarter of a million will be set aside to reward the discoverer of a cure for cancer...
Died. Jacob da Silva Solis-Cohen, 89, first surgeon to operate successfully on cancer of the throat; at Philadelphia. He developed the science of laryngoscopy and taught most of the present specialists. When J. Ramsay MacDonald, onetime English Prime Minister, visited the U. S. last April and fell ill, Dr. Solis-Cohen attended him personally...
Donna Grazia Deledda, Italian authoress of Sardinian tales, received the 1927 literature award. Medical diplomas for 1926 and 1927 went respectively to Dr. Johannes Fibiger, Danish cancer expert; and to Dr. Julius Wagner von Jauregg, Viennese professor of medicine. Finally the 1927 physics award was shared by two scholarly investigators of electrophysics: Professors Arthur Holly Compton (U.S.) and Charles T. R. Wilson (Britain...
March 11 "Cancer". Dr. D. F. Jones...