Word: cancered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hours. Two ounces of 90-proof whiskey will turn the same trick. If a five-grain tablet of aspirin is added, any pain can be dulled for four hours. Dr. Wolff urged his colleagues to return to the use of whiskey for "persons suffering continuously," especially cancer victims. Said he: "It is cheaper than morphine. ... Of course alcohol is habit-forming but an alcohol habit is less difficult to deal with than a morphine habit...
...those of the stomach. For both, a mild, milky diet and a calm, easy life may bring relief. Ulcers of the duodenum may be removed by a surgeon, but usually they return in worse form. Only consolation: duodenal ulcers practically never turn into cancer...
...Farinacci's Fascist Party plotters undercut the Old Guard and ousted Marshal Pietro Badoglio. Correspondent Whitaker added: "The Fascists have deliberately spread lies about the corruption of Badoglio. He isn't corrupt. He is merely a very old man. . . . Graziani is a sick man, suffering, perhaps, from cancer of the throat...
...column of mercury 130 millimetres high, or a column of water about five feet ten inches high. Hypertension, or high blood pressure, causes headaches, dizziness, insomnia, leads eventually to hardened arteries and overburdened hearts. Hypertension kills more people a year-some 375,000 in the U. S. -than cancer. Specialists call patients with high blood pressure "hypertensives." Dr. Irvine H. Page did not bother with these ABCs of the malady when last week he delivered a lecture in Manhattan on "The Nature and Treatment of Hypertension." Dr. Page, a top-notch high pressure man from Indianapolis, showed that great strides...
...children of her own, and Dr. Reginald Spencer Lourie declared that, on the contrary, these wild yarns are often good for unhappy children-"an inexpensive form of therapy." Dr. Bender told of a little girl whose father was a bootlegger, gambler and eventual suicide, whose mother was a paranoid cancer sufferer. Obsessed by the need of escape, the girl identified herself with one of the Hawk Man's constantly rescued women. A boy who had been ignored all his life by an unstable mother and an alcoholic father believed that he was in constant danger, that he would...