Word: cancer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...pronouncement last week from two neurosurgeons of the University of Pennsylvania Hospital, Philadelphia, stated that the pain, if not the doom of cancer, can be mitigated by an operation. The surgeons are William G. Spiller and Charles H. Frazier. Their operation-chordotomy- severs the sensory nerves in the spinal column. It is performed in cases where the pain is too great for drugs to relieve...
...American astrologers have predicted Mr. McAdoo to become President of the United States. I have just calculated the constellation of Mr. Calvin Coolidge. . . . Heard also the G. O. P. should do the important work until July 4, 1925, on days when the moon has passed the thirteenth degree of Cancer until the end of Sagittarius, and a landslide in votes will be for Coolidge...
...years ago, E. Freund and Gisa Kaminer of Vienna published results of investigations on cancer which attracted attention throughout the scientific world. They had found that the serum of the blood of cancer patients would not dissolve cancer cells, whereas that of normal persons would. They claimed, indeed, that the cancer serum would protect cancers against the dissolving action of normal serum. Now they have announced in the Wiener Klinische Wochenschrift (Vienna Clinical Weekly) the results of their last ten years of work on this subject. They have found in the intestinal contents of persons with cancer a substance which...
...Cancer and sarcoma...
...cancer death rate still climbing...