Word: cancered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...weak husband to his own devices. Painfully she holds down a job in an advertising agency, lives scrimpingly in lodgings where her only friend is a blowsy adventuress. When her two pre-War pals are demobilized one of them plans to start an honest weekly; he dies of cancer before he can make a beginning. The other retires into scientific research. Hervey leaves her job, helps found the hopeless paper and serves it faithfully until it founders. Her husband becomes more & more of a problem. As this first volume ends, Hervey is beginning to find an answer to her difficulties...
...Gastro-Photor"-graphs taken inside the stomach of a suspected cancer sufferer turned out well, according to Philadelphia's Hahnemann Hospital. But what they showed, doctors refused to reveal.- ED. Fat "Cures...
Died. Dr. William Henry Welch, 84, "Dean of U. S. Medicine"; of cancer of the prostate; in Baltimore. Born of a New England family and educated at Yale and Columbia, he began studying pathology and bacteriology in the 1870's when Koch's discoveries in contagious disease were new and when a well-rounded medical education could not be had in the U. S. Bringing from Europe new ideas and a sound reputation, Dr. Welch took over the organization of Johns Hopkins Medical School in 1884, became dean of its faculty in 1893. First...
...first thought his left kidney might be displaced. Then an x-ray showed a growth in his stomach. But on an x-ray plate exposed a week later the growth had disappeared. The physicians were stumped. As may any prolonged internal discomfort, Henry Harrington's pains might indicate cancer. But with x-ray there was no way to tell until the cancer should attain a considerable mass. Last week Dr. John Falenks of Manhattan went to the physicians' aid with something new to the U. S. Named "Gastro-Photo," it was a stomach camera invented in Vienna...
...prints, explained Dr. Falenks, would show humps as whitish and holes as dark blurs, thus reveal the first sign of cancer or ulcer. Philadelphia physicians withheld comment until the films should be developed. But everyone knows that the sooner a cancer is discovered and treated the better. Dr. Falenks was sure the Gastro-Photo marked a noteworthy advance in the incessant cancer...