Word: cancer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...doctors' subversive opinions were part of a general attack by radical biologists on conventional conceptions of growth: the basic life process. If the new theories hold, they will affect all biology, from animal breeding to the understanding of cancer...
...Until Such Time." Ponderously Barkley said what he had to say. He was sure the Senate wanted to "compose the situation." Bilbo had been a member for twelve years. Now "the Senator-elect from Mississippi is an ill man. He has an infection of the mouth. Physicians pronounced it cancer." Bilbo closed the door...
Fields for Research. Dr. Ivy's colleagues consider him one of the nation's top physiqlogists. He is an expert on stomach ulcers (TIME, April 28, 1941), aviation medicine (TIME, Oct. 6, 1941), cancer (TIME, Dec. 16, 1946), analgesia (pain killers), gall-bladder and liver complaints, diseases of old age. His proudest achievement: discovery of a hormone which he thinks shows promise as a stomach-ulcer cure (the hormone: enterogastrone, extracted from hog intestines...
...Andrew Ivy, medicine is partly "missionary" work. Much of this work is done in Washington, where he is almost as well known as in Chicago (he was a medical consultant to both the Army and Navy during the war). He has big plans for national cancer research, has pestered capital politicos for a good many months to put up the money. With his great & good friend, the University of Chicago's world-famed physiologist Anton J. ("Ajax") Carlson, he has for years fought a determined battle against anti-vivisectionists...
...diarrhea and enteritis, off the top list. Sulfa drugs and penicillin have taken the edge off pneumonia. Tuberculosis has yielded somewhat to better treatment and early X-ray diagnosis. To take their places, non-germ diseases have moved up. Last year's list: 1) heart disease; 2) cancer; 3) cerebral hemorrhage; 4) nephritis; 5) pneumonia and influenza; 6) accidents (except motor vehicle); 7) tuberculosis; 8) diabetes; 9) premature birth; 10) motor vehicle accidents...