Word: cancered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...first nine months at Lambarene, Dr. Schweitzer treated 2,000 cases?practically every imaginable disease except cancer. Some of his black patients accepted the Jesus he preached. Most of them called the doctor "Oganga," the medicine...
...audience that habitually listens to "Doctors, Dollars and Disease," tuned in to hear Dr. Parran on "Public Health Needs." Instead they got 15 minutes of orchestra music. Next day a few of them learned why. Dr. Parran had prepared a talk on syphilis. Infantile paralysis, diphtheria, tuberculosis, and cancer are diseases which broadcasters frequently discuss over the radio but Columbia Broadcasting drew the line at Dr. Parran's subject. Nonetheless, he appeared at CBS's Manhattan studio to tell the nation about syphilis. Would he alter his prepared text to conform with what the company considered good public...
Last fortnight the world's eyes were again on Geraldine Farrar. In Los Angeles an impoverished, cancer-ridden man who once had been her husband had gone into a bathroom, stood before a mirror and stabbed himself seven times with a pair of common sewing scissors. Reporters telephoned Miss Farrar at her Ridgefield, Conn. home, asked for comment on Lou Tellegen's death. Her reply was characteristically candid: "Why should that interest...
...desperate effort to save the life of cancer-ridden Actress Lucille La Verne, Los Angeles surgeons removed a set of muscles which had become so infected that her right lung was useless. Splitting the remaining muscles, they pieced together a new muscular system along her right side. Few days later the doctors were delighted to find that Miss La Verne was breathing with both lungs...
Wrinkles (rugae) cover the entire lining of the stomach. They all run parallel to the long axis of the stomach from the cardiac end where fresh food comes in to the pyloric end where digested food goes out into the intestines. Pathologists notice that every ulcer or cancer of the stomach always distorts the neat parallelism of the wrinkles. But they notice it only after the patient is dead and the autopsist has done his work. If x-ray pictures had shown the irregular wrinkles, the doctor might have saved the patient before it was too late...