Word: cancered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Dr.William Frederick Koch pronounces his name to rhyme with joke. His patients have found very little to laugh at in his practice-which is bluntly described by the Journal of the American Medical Association as "Koch's cancer quackery"-though the families of his patients have often seen the point, too late. For years the federal Food & Drug Administration has had a suspicious eye on Dr. Koch. But last week he was still doing business at the same old stand: his "Koch Foundation," an old brownstone house on Detroit's East Jackson Street. And Dr. Koch...
Ever since 1919, a year after his graduation from a reputable medical school, Dr. Koch has been peddling "cancer cures" (TIME, Dec. 10, 1934; April 20, 1942). In 1942 he and his office-manager brother Louis were indicted for introducing a misbranded article into interstate commerce. The jury disagreed. The second trial, in 1946, ended when a juror became...
...sometimes a bargain rate of $15), testimony showed, Dr. Koch sells a two-cubic-centimeter ampoule of a drug he calls "glyoxylide." Until the law began reading them, the labels promised cures for "cancer, allergy, and infection." Food & Drug accuses him of claiming to cure "practically all human ills, including . . . tuberculosis." Glyoxylide, according to Dr. Koch, is the "internal anhydride" of glyoxylic acid. Chemists know all about glyoxylic acid, but they never heard of anybody having isolated its internal anhydride. Food & Drug Attorney William W. Goodrich said Government chemists could find nothing in it but distilled water, called...
...Lasker Foundation, formed in 1942, reflects the varied Lasker interests: fellowships for graduate students working with Sir Howard Florey, co-discoverer of penicillin (he picks the students); money for cancer research directed by the University of Chicago's Dr. Charles B. Huggins (his projects); research in hardening of the arteries, headed by Dr. Forrest Kendall at Manhattan's Goldwater Hospital...
Beautiful Death. For four days, the newspapers played the story for all it was worth, and then some. They bickered over whether Ruth really knew that he had cancer of the throat, or had merely known -since the last rites of the Roman Catholic Church were administered July 21-that he was bound to die; they told conflicting stories about whether Teropterin had been used to treat him. They quoted the priest who blessed the Babe ("He died a beautiful death"). They quoted or put quotes into the mouths of moppets who hung around the hospital ("Urchins from nearby brownstone...