Word: cancered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. Tom Bacon Rind, 84, onetime Chief of the Osage Indians; of cancer and pneumonia; in Pawhuska, Okla. Towering 6 ft. 4 in., he adhered strictly to the old-time tribal customs, deplored the "civilization" of his oilrich braves. Annually for 25 years he junketed to Washington to be greeted, photographed...
...advertiser had a hocus-pocus "cure" for varicose veins. That led enterprising Mr. Baker into the "cancer-cure" business. Receipts from using the "cures" of two other quacks-Harry M. Hoxsey of Muscatine and Charles O. Ozias of Kansas City-started with $1,380 for October 1929. reached $75,232 for June 1930. But the A. M. A.'s weekly Journal (for doctors) and monthly Hygeia (for everybody) began flaying Quack Baker. His receipts dropped until last January they were only $7,008. He lost the license for his broadcasting station KTNT. Iowa enjoined him from practicing medicine without...
Tomorrow's talk will be the last of a series of 12 lectures which have been given every Sunday since the first week in January. The following subjects among others, have been discussed: "Modern Conceptions of the Brain at Work", "Cancer", "What the X-Ray can and Cannot Do", "The White House Conference and Oral Hygiene", "Asthma, Hay Fever, and Allied Conditions", and "Rheumatic Heart Disease in Children and Adults...
...volt x-ray tube and equipment to operate it. Building a tube strong enough to carry that tremendous energy is no great feat. General Electric's Dr. William David Coolidge built one for 900,000 volts. It is now being used to treat cancer in Manhattan's Memorial Hospital. Then there are Caltech's Dr. Charles Christian Lauritsen's for 1,200,000 volts, Carnegie Institution's Dr. Tuve's for 2,000,000. In Berlin last year Drs. F. Lange and A. Brasch sent 2,600,000 volts through a simple tube...
...Take twelve Phi Beta Kappa men and twelve football men 25 years after their graduation from the University of California. Of the footballers, nine are living (one was murdered, one died of tuberculosis, one of cancer) and one is in Who's Who. Of the "Phi Betes," ten are living (one was murdered, one died of tuberculosis) and all twelve...