Word: cancer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...York City Department of Public Welfare opened the first municipal cancer clinic...
...Cancer is caused by absence in the human body of a serum which dissolves centres of infection. Therefore, extract this serum from animals and inject into humans...
...then discovered that the serum which naturally prevents cancer is produced in a small gland in the neck, and that this gland becomes decreasingly active until, at 50, it often ceases to function. Therefore, stimulate this gland. But the gland cannot be sufficiently stimulated...
Finally a serum, artificially made, is discovered. Injection of this serum will give immunity from cancer. Use of the serum in connection with an operation will prevent a reappearance of the disease...
Many medical men, as tribute to Fichera, have undertaken to collect funds for a cancer institute in Milan, where his discoveries can be developed...