Word: cancer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...time-honored list of things which U.S. politicians may be counted upon to denounce relentlessly-the housefly, the common cold, the man-eating shark-Washington's Senator Homer Bone in 1937 added cancer. When he introduced a bill for a National Cancer Institute, it bore the sponsoring signatures of 94 Senators. (The other two hastened to add theirs before the bill came to a vote.) Last fortnight Missouri's Bennett Champ Clark hit on something which politicians almost as unanimously favor. He introduced a veterans' benefits bill, jointly sponsored by 80 other Senators. Last week, amid plaints...
Spreading Cancer. Quick to defend the picture was the National Conference of Christians & Jews which includes Roman Catholics and which had previously approved M.O.T.'s projected film. Said the Conference's Dr. Willard Johnson: "We believe that Americans of all creeds are in sympathy with this objective . . . the forthcoming picture . . . which deals with the pernicious effects of all forms of bigotry, will be an invaluable help in directing public attention to what His Excellency, Archbishop Spellman, accurately describes as a spreading cancer...
...advantages of loud, clear medical advice were learned last week by Dr. Frederick William Haskell McKee of Manhattan's Park Ave. He strapped $2,300-worth of radium in three narrow, inch-long tubes to a woman patient's leg (to treat a small cancer) and told her to go to his office rest room. She misunderstood him and went to the hairdressers' instead...
...Gout is almost exclusively a man's disease, cancer of the gall bladder almost exclusively a woman's. People who get diseases that are more frequent in the opposite sex are likely to have many of that sex's physical and mental characteristics. The doctors mean no insult by this-they say it is the gynic (female) factors in a man that make him a good physician...
...Contrary to earlier reports, two tiny injections do not last a lifetime. Treatment is a ten-day course of injections which may be repeated as needed for resisting disease or restoring vigor (e.g., a certain cancer patient gets three courses a year). The course: three tiny injections every three days until twelve have been given...