Word: cancer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...five organizations convened to hear reports on new researches important to medicine and certain verifications of older work: the Medical Society of the State of New York (in Manhattan) ; the American Association of Immunologists (at Albany) ; the American Association of Pathologists and Bacteriologists (at Albany); the American Association for Cancer Research (at Albany); and the American Association of Anatomists (at New Haven...
Hereditary Cancer. Most authorities hold that cancer or susceptibility to or resistance to the disease is peculiar to each individual, that none of these conditions can be inherited. However Miss Maude Slye of Chicago, who for 18 years has been experimenting on mice with cancer, claimed last week that the ability to resist the disease is inheritable, that she has prevented its appearance in 25 generations of mice, that the American Association for Control of Cancer should be condemned for not warning the public of these facts...
Great are the dangers of habitual constipation-leading often to autointoxication, intestinal ulcers and even cancer (TIME, Dec. 7). Great too are the dangers of laxatives, purgatives and cathartics.* On the household medicine shelf is the array of epsom salts, castor oil and compound cathartic pills or their masked coordinates. The housewife has learned from a long chain of gossips to use these whenever any of her progeny complain of stomach ache, and as a rule she is safe in their use, for the really serious stomach and intestinal disorders are comparatively rare...
...average person knows too little about medicine. If the world is ever to erase cancer, tuberculosis, etc., from its list of terrible diseases, it will come about only through education?education of the people by articles in magazines, newspapers, and shouted from the housetops and by any other method by which the terrible results of such diseases may be brought before the people. Perhaps the lady does not have any friend who is suffering from the ravages of such diseases. If she has not she should get down on her knees and thank God for being so kind...
...from the Inland Sea, tragedy, modified at intervals, by humor, satiric, satisfying. And when one sees the figure of the old preacher and priest. Alurid, pathetic in his own futility, planning the lives of his family and friends quite with out success, when one glimpses his wife, dying of cancer, slowly and with the help of a remorseless and unscientific God, one feels the throb which comes with appreciation of depths really plumbed...