Word: cancer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...minute organism (Streptococcus cardioarthritidis) from the blood of rheumatic patients and had been able to build a serum that cured a few cases of rheumatism. Director Krusen was delighted, for the cause of rheumatism (rheumatic fever) is obscure. Doctors know as little about it as they do about cancer. Rheumatism does not kill so many people as does cancer. Yet it is responsible for one-fourth of all heart disease deaths...
...Cancer 92.6 91.9 Gain...
That is one reason why more people are now dying of heart diseases, kidney diseases and cancer (characteristic maladies of middle age and senescence) than died a generation ago. Formerly people who would have had these ailments died young. But, in the case of heart diseases, the hazard of death has been actually increasing. Louis Israel Dublin of the Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. stressed this fact in the current Harper's. According to him. out of 100 ways of dying, a boy of ten now has 19 chances of dying eventually from heart diseases...
Doctors have begun to warn against heart trouble as they did against tuberculosis and more recently against cancer. They talk of heart disease, for the sake of simplicity, as though it were a simple malady. It is not. There is probably no disease that actually starts in the heart. (Cancer of the heart and angina pectoris may be exceptions.) But practically all diseases of the heart are brought to it. Hardening of the arteries, high blood pressure and Bright's disease, cause 40% of heart troubles; rheumatic fever, 25%; syphilis, 10%; various other sicknesses, 15%. In only...
...Ferdinand of Rumania: "A pleasant Christmas gift to me this year, in the midst of my troubles with cancer, fire (TIME, Dec. 20) and disputes about succession to the throne, was Parliament's increase of my civil list, or yearly stipend from $140,000 to $200,000.*; My five-year-old grandson, Crown Prince Michel, had his allowance increased to $30,000. At the same time $175,000 was appropriated for restoration of the royal palace wing that was recently burned. Commentators said I would find my increased funds useful for doctor's bills and for certain expenses...