Word: cancered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Depressed Leacock. Professor Stephen Butler Leacock, McGill's witty economist, intended to devote all his income to cancer research when Mrs. Leacock died of cancer. Commented he at the Physicians' meeting: "Subsidize cancer research? Why I couldn't subsidize a pony cart today. . . . That was two years ago. .. . You've heard of the Depression, haven't you? . . . No, I haven't any money for research...
...apparent cure of a case of bone cancer by means of arsenic warranted reporting in the current issue of the Canadian Medical Association Journal. A Toronto woman, Mrs. R- F-, had a cancer on her left thigh bone. High voltage X-ray treatment for eight months produced no observable good...
...Arthur Clinton Hendrick, Toronto surgeon who was handling Mrs. R- F-'s cancer, decided to cease X-rays and try intravenous injections of colloidal metallic arsenic. His good friend, Professor Eli Franklin Burton, University of Toronto physicist, had originated the preparation of colloidal arsenic. Putting the stuff into Mrs. R- F-'s veins was a risky business. Arsenic, used medicinally to improve the blood's condition, is a poison. The woman with cancer in her leg approved the risk. Three months later the broken bone mended itself. Today, a year & a half after beginning the colloidal arsenic...
...Foundation has a $100, 000 fund to send 100 boys & girls to college. Highly publicized have been its standing offers of $250,000 for a cancer cure, $25,000 for an influenza cure...
...Memphis convent of the Sisters of the Good Shepherd, one hot summer afternoon in 1913, Sister Mary Magdalen (born Mary Hodges) lay waiting for death. Doctors had diagnosed cancer. But Sister Mary Magdalen had begun with other sisters a novena (nine days of prayer) to the Venerable Mary Euphrasia Pelletier who, French-born in 1796, had expanded their Order of Our Lady of Charity of the Good Shepherd establishing 110 houses throughout the world to save fallen women. Sister Mary Magdalen had prayed that she might live to see Mother Mary beatified. Now, suddenly, she felt a flow of strength...