Word: cancered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Nobody knows why anything dies, "We say a person died of cancer, but we don't know why the cancer killed him. We don't know the mechanics of death...
Died. Major General Adna Romanza Chaffee, 56, who fought for, won, and organized the U.S. Army's first Armored Force (TIME, Aug. 18); of cancer; in Boston. Son of the late Lieut. General Adna R. Chaffee, onetime Chief of Staff, he served in the St. Mihiel and Meuse-Argonne offensives in World War I, postulated more than a decade ago the principles of armored forces which the Germans adopted...
...woman with an enormous cancer of the cheek walked into the office of Dr. Emanuel Louis Stammer of Queens, N.Y. The woman said she had been given many X-ray and radium treatments at Queens General Hospital; none of them seemed to do any good...
...Stammer remembered a "cancer salve" that another patient had given him. He said he had been informed that it contained zinc sulfate, galanga (a Chinese spice), bloodroot and ordinary lanolin. Dr. Stammer, no cancer specialist, had not analyzed the salve. He did not know what effect it would have, but he tried it out on himself to make sure it was harmless. Since her cancer seemed incurable, the patient agreed to give the salve a chance...
...smeared the paste on her face every three hours for several months. After a while the tumor disappeared. Although he was surprised at the results, Dr. Stammer never published any articles on the strange case, never claimed that he had a cancer cure. But the story got around to the New York State Board of Regents. They revoked his license for one year. Under State law, a doctor may not undertake "to cure or treat a disease by a secret medicine." Dr. Stammer's salve was classified as "secret" because he had not analyzed...