Word: cancer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week one of these women was honored, another oldtimer died. In Philadelphia Dr. Catharine Macfarlane, professor of gynecology at Women's Medical College (only exclusively women's medical school in the world) won the Gimbel award of $1,000 for her clinic to control cancer in women (TIME, June 5, 1939). In Haddam, Conn., death came to Dr. Kate Campbell Hurd-Mead, 73, sentimental historian of women doctors (Medical Women of America; A History of Women in Medicine). Among the noted women whose careers she noted...
...sacs, inflames delicate tissues, forms abscesses and scars. Victims develop a hacking cough, run a low fever. Lipid or oil pneumonia is difficult to diagnose, for few physicians know much about it, and different oils cause different symptoms. In old people oil pneumonia is sometimes mistaken for cancer of the lung. Pneumonia caused by bacteria can be successfully combated with serums and sulfapyridine or sulfathiazole; for lipid pneumonia there is no treatment. At present, said Dr. Cannon, oil pneumonia is recognized chiefly at autopsy...
...bridge player-for stakes-was rated the world's No. 7 amateur chess player. At 19 he suddenly gave up gambling, went to University of Chicago, whizzed through a four-year course in a year. At 25, well launched toward a career as a lawyer, he died of cancer...
...evil like cancer exist if all that God created was good?" challenged a heckler. "Cancer is not an evil," retorted Roman Catholic Father David I. Dorsch of Baltimore. "Sin alone is evil, because sin alone keeps man from his final...
...Steiner cautiously refrained from theorizing last week. He does not know what the cancer-producing substance...