Word: cancerous
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...obscure little Maribor, on the Jugoslav frontier lives Schoolteacher Polsjchak. Word went round that he knew strange things; that he had studied tuberculosis and cancer; that he had even cured neighbor Kretschnik's wife who was about to die of cancer, and that other one, old man Melchnikoff, who had a burning in his side like fire...
Died. U. S. Junior Senator Frank Gooding of Idaho, 68, onetime (1905-07) Republican Governor of Idaho, hardy antagonist in 1907 of the late "Big Bill" Haywood, whose supporters daily threatened the Governor's life, recently an active member of the Senate committee investigating coal strike conditions; of cancer; in Gooding, Idaho...
...moot point debated at the meeting of the American Association for Cancer Research at the same congress. Should chronic gastric ulcer be regarded as borderline cancer and operated upon accordingly or should it be treated as a simple ulcer? Dr. William Carpenter MacCarty, head of the cancer research division of the Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minn., thought it partook of the nature of cancer; 12.5 per cent of all chronic gastric ulcer cases observed at Rochester had died of cancer within 12 years. He was supported by Dr. James Ewing of New York, opposed by Dr. Aldred Scott Warthin, president...
...simple satisfactory cure for cancer of the larynx was reported by Sir St. Clair Thomson of London, president of the Royal Society of Medicine. The one essential is an early diagnosis; the operation is a laryngo-fissure, free from danger to voice or patient. Twenty five years' experience; 70 laryngo-fissures, resulted in 34 patients still alive, 32 who lived from 3 to 19 years after the operation without recurrence of the disease...
...Prohibition were perturbed also by the language of Major Curran's report of his progress. Back of his board of directors is a membership of 750,000 citizens. "And behind that," he said, "stands the increasing determination of the American people to cut out of our Constitution the cancer that lodged there when the Eighteenth Amendment was enacted...