Word: cancer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Saul Hertz, instructor in Medicine in the Medical School, has announced that he has founded an institution, The Radioactive Isotope Research Institute, whose purpose is to apply radioactive fission products to the treatment of the thyroid cancer, goiter, and other malignant growths...
...Hertz feels that the application of isotope research to the cancer problem will be along "tracer" lines, since it has been demonstrated that the majority of cancerous thyroids do not take up the radioactive iodine in the manner in which do the glands of patients suffering from Gravea' disease...
This skein is thoroughly tangled from the moment Character Wylie comes down to lunch brooding about cancer and finds the botanist's wife, name of Yvonne, who is brooding over Kinsey's Sexual Behavior in the Human Male. Wylie quickly recognizes her as "a nice bitch . . . with a father complex" and wins her sympathy by telling her what unkind reviews TIME gives his books. Yvonne tells Wylie all about her experience in the conservatory...
...Monday. But by Monday, all is well. Yvonne has had an affair with a floozy named Gwen and has thereby lost her anti-botanical prejudices. Marcia has gone back to the call-house where she belongs. Paul is in a hospital, sadder and wiser. And Character Wylie's cancer turns out to be just a "rare lymphatic growth...
...safety valve of temper tantrum. They were "good children" who bottled up their emotions, cracked up later when they were about to finish school and face the world. Vienna-trained Dr. Tietze did not live to see her report published; on May 7, she died, at 39, from cancer...