Word: cancered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Cunningham, 54, originally from Kansas City, believes that organisms which live only in the absence of oxygen cause certain forms of diabetes, pernicious anemia, and cancer. To him, the logical treatment is to saturate the patient with oxygen under pressure, which theoretically permeates to the morbid organisms and kills them. The Bureau of Investigation of the American Medical Association, after due consideration, has denounced this theory of therapy as so much quackery. Nevertheless, Henry Holiday Timken, reclusive roller-bearing tycoon, had sufficient faith in Dr. Cunningham's ideas to give him $1,000,000 to construct his tank hospital...
...leader of the Senate: "Don't call in the regular army! Don't militarize Rhode Island for the sake of the selfish interests of a small group of mill-owners! If you want to stop the trouble, stop it at its source, the mills, which are a cancer in this body politic...
When he read the Berlin news, Professor Francis Carter Wood, director of Columbia University's Institute for Cancer Research and editor of the American Journal of Cancer sneered: "This is all rot. There's nothing to it. Plenty of this sort of stuff is coming out of Germany just...
...James Ewing, foremost U. S. authority on .cancer, director of cancer research at Manhattan's Memorial Hospital where only cancer is treated, impatiently denounced: "The claim is so improbable, so unsubstantiated, and so unlikely that it is not even worth discussng...
...Kaplan, radiologist who supervises all the cancer work done in Manhattan's municipal hospitals: "We have ':ested over a hundred such claims in the I^ity Cancer Institute, not once but a number of times. They all proved to be absolutely worthless...