Word: cancered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. Adele Neustadt Schiff, 53, widow of Mortimer Leo Schiff, New York philanthropist and international banker; of cancer; in Oyster...
...Washington Surgeon General Hugh Smith Gumming of the U. S. Public Health Service and Joseph Eugene Ransdell of Louisiana who as Senator from Louisiana got the National Institute of Health established, separately announced that Federal investigators are now working on cancer, leprosy, malaria, Rocky Mountain spotted fever, pellagra, trachoma, tularemia, meningitis, infantile paralysis, heart disease, undulant fever, child hygiene, industrial hygiene, milk sanitation, stream pollution, water purification...
...James Ewing. cancer doctor Sc.D...
...important in their general relations, and that they are becoming 'purer,' by which we mean that their main objectives are theoretical and fundamental, rather than practical and applied." He made this modest prediction: "We should, each one of us, like to discover at once a cure for cancer, or for tuberculosis, but I venture to say that the final determining step that will lead to either one will be made by some one who is concerned with the orderly development of some obscure and apparently unrelated branch of science as such, rather than with direct attainment...
...during the Spanish War, was largely responsible for paratyphoid inoculation of U. S. troops in the World War. Surgeon Keen assisted in the secret removal of a sarcoma from the mouth of Stephen Grover Cleveland in 1893. Fearing the precarious financial situation would be aggravated by news of his cancer, President Cleveland had the operation performed aboard Elias C. Benedict's yacht Oneida. While the yacht steamed slowly up Manhattan's East River into Long Island Sound, most of his upper left jaw and part of his palate were cut away. Five days later President Cleveland was able...