Word: cancer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Henry H. Timken, president of Timken Roller Bearing Co., Canton, Ohio, began to spend virtually a million dollars last week so that Dr. Orval James Cunningham of Kansas City, Mo., might study and test his treatment of certain cases of diabetes, pernicious anemia and cancer by putting the patients in tanks filled with air under pressure. Mr. Timken has spent $165,000 for a ten-acre plot of land on the Lake Erie shore at Cleveland's eastern limits and, last week, had agents apply for a building permit to construct the first steel tank, to be 64 feet...
...Some hair dyes irritate the skin dangerously; others contain poisonous lead. Some freckle removers contain ammoniated mercury, a caustic poison that eats the skin. If a substance is powerful enough to dissolve hair, it is powerful enough to dissolve skin. Using the x-ray to remove hair may cause cancer. The A. M. A. is seeking laws to "forbid the sale of certain dangerous poisons as ingredients of cosmetics and to compel all makers of cosmetics to make truthful representations of their products."?Arthur J. Cramp, sharp-tongued, ruthless quack-killer and nostrum-chaser...
...Anglo-American scholarship fund of ?250,000 ($1,215,000) was established by the will of Lady Henry, formerly Miss Julia Lewisohn of Manhattan, who died a fortnight ago following an operation for cancer. The bequest provides scholarships at Oxford and Cambridge for U. S. students of either sex; scholarships at Harvard and Yale for British students of either...
...Cancer. Dr. Aldred Scott War-thin of Ann Arbor, Mich., agreed with Dr. Maud Slye of Chicago that the disposition to or resistance to cancer is inheritable. She has performed, during 16 years, 80,000 cancer experiments on mice. The two recommended a central bureau for cancer statistics, agreeing that in three generations (about 90 years) man would have enough cancer data to draw conclusions that would lead to a cure...
Died. William F. Kirk, 50, Hearst poet-humorist-baseball-writer; at Chippewa Falls, Wis.; of cancer...