Word: cancered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Homage Volume. There is a code of ethics for a homage volume like Cancer. "The dedicatee should be recognized as an international leader in his field of research. He should be an eminent trainer of scholars, as well as himself an eminent scholar. . . ." By emphasizing the teacher a homage book differs from the Nobel prize in Medicine, which emphasizes the discoverer of medical fundamentals. Professor Ewing is of course both...
...late William Osier when he was teaching at Johns Hopkins; Harvey Gushing, Harvard's brain surgeon; the late Abraham Jacobi of Columbia, founder of pediatrics (children's diseases) ; Carl Gustaf A. Forssell, radiologist of Sweden; Albert Sigmund Gustav Döderline, gynecologist of Germany. And now Cancer Man Ewing of Cornell...
...Professor Ewing was 64 Christmas Day. He is a tireless worker, now more important in medicine, especially in the cancer field, than ever before. During the years when he was writing Neoplastic Diseases, he worked holidays, nights and weekends. And all the time he was racked by paroxysms of facial neuralgia...
...WiIliam James Mayo (the elder brother) remarks in Cancer: "Inasmuch as the testis is the primitive organ of procreation from which the ovary is derived, it has a protective heredity behind it." Similarly the small intestine is less susceptible to Cancer than its newer connections, the stomach and large bowel...
...years to develop a two-million-volt tube which produces X-rays equivalent to the gamma rays of 182 million dollars worth of radium. Laboratory significance : scientists by using these powerful rays may be able to burst the atom nucleus. Practical significance: X-rays from high voltage tubes resemble cancer-curing gamma rays, may possibly be used as a radium substitute...