Word: cancered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...event which made news last week was the opening of a cancer clinic attached to the Infirmary. Dr. James Ewing, dean of cancer specialists, was there. Mrs Frank Arthur Vanderlip attended in black & red as Infirmary president. The memory of the late Chauncey Mitchell Depew, oratorical plutocrat, hovered over the simple ceremonies. Donors of the clinic were his sister's daughters-May Strang and Dr. Elise Strang L'Esperance. Dr. L'Esperance is pathologist at the Infirmary for Women & Children...
Experimental evidence discounts the possibility that germs cause cancer. Nonetheless, ever since the 1880's soon after microbes were first recognized as agents of disease, investigators have tried to connect germs with cancer. Most discussed recent proponent of the germ theory has been Dr. William Ewart Gye of London, who indicated a virus. Last year Dr. Edward Watts Saunders of Cornell suggested a streptococcus...
Last week Drs. Thomas James Glover of New York and Jacob Lenhert Engle of Philadelphia, after ten years' research, proposed a spore-bearing organism. They find the spore-bearing germ in human breast cancer, can grow the material like any germ, and with cultures produce secondary cancers in guinea pigs, animals notoriously difficult to render cancerous. The National Institute of Health thinks so well of Drs. Glover and Engle's work that it let their last week's announcement bear the Institute's cachet...
...diet of albumins and thyroid extract; no proteins, salt, sugar, cereals, cream, potatoes or meat. His doctor: Ignactius Millian, one-time cancer doctor at Manhattan's Central & Neurological Hospital on Welfare Island...
Died. James John ("Gentleman Jim") Corbett, onetime (1892-97) world's heavyweight boxing champion; of cancer of the liver; at Bayside. L. I. A clever disdainful boxer, he knocked out John L. Sullivan in 21 rounds in New Orleans, after politely contradicting, in a Chicago saloon, Sullivan's famed boast: "I can lick any son of a in the world." After losing the title to Bob Fitzsimmons, trying unsuccessfully to win it back in two fights against his onetime sparring partner, Jim Jeffries, he earned a living by acting (Gentleman Jack, After Dark: or Neither Maid, Wife...