Word: cancered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...these discoveries are been the isolation of quinine by Woodward and Doering, the separation of blood plasma into its various chemical components by Dr. Cohn, the invention of an apparatus for transferring whole blood within the battle lines by Majors Emerson and Ebert, the gathering of much evidence that cancer is caused by glandular disturbances by Drs. Lieberstein, Hill and Feiser, and a new treatment for goiter by Dr. Astwood...
Nobody really knows much about the gland-made hormones which influence personality, body shape, health. But what hormones do is often big news. Last week hormones made news in the treatment of acne and cancer...
...Testosterone propionate, a male sex hormone preparation, has been tried by German Exile Dr. Eric Fels (now in Buenos Aires) on three women far gone with breast cancer. The hormone improved all three cancer patients. One bedridden woman with a cancer that had spread to her bones was able to get up out of bed, now plays ping-pong every day. There is some recalcification of the thin spots in her bones. She still harbors cancer cells, but healthy fibrous tissue is growing among them...
...Record, came to the U.S. from Russia in 1889, got about a year's medical education at night school. He was twice arrested in Baltimore for peddling dope. In Pittsburgh he jumped bail when charged with practicing medicine on immigrants with a machine to cure syphilis, tuberculosis, cancer, other ailments. In Manhattan he was jailed for establishing a Madison Avenue practice without a license. His pickings as a "specialist" during six busy weeks in Utica totaled $36,000. Before coming to Philadelphia, said the Record, Schireson made "one of the largest medical incomes...
...faculty, Stephen Leacock tentatively thought of returning to his native England, then decided to stay in Canada. Said he: "Fetch me my carpet slippers ... I'll rock it out to sleep right here." Last week, at 74, he died in a Toronto hospital, after an operation for throat cancer. Mourning was not confined to McGill, nor to Canada...