Word: cancerous
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Little, former president of the University of Michigan, and recently elected president of the American Society for the Control of Cancer, studied at Harvard after his graduation. For two years, from 1911 to 1913, he was research assistant in genetics, after which he was for four years research fellow in genetics...
...France, son of an English banker, stood in the iron-railed prisoner's dock at Draguignan in Southern France last week, facing a judge and a jury of hard-faced farmers. Hesitant witnesses told how the accused had learned that his elderly French mother was suffering from an incurable cancer, how he had taken care of her for months; then how, when doctors had given up all hope, he had cleaned his revolver, walked into his mother's bedroom, kissed her, shot her dead, then shot himself but not fatally...
...proper hands) eases pain and helps cure boils, carbuncles, cancer, neuritis, neuralgia (Dr. Roy Fouts of Omaha). Heat can remove tonsils without surgery, by cutting off their blood supply (Dr. Frederick Louis Wahrer of Marshalltown, Iowa...
...some 3,000 men and a few women took time to display themselves at Chicago. The big affair of the week was the Clinical Congress of the American College of Surgeons, whose Fellows include all the good practitioners of the country. Attending members studied and discussed hospital improvement plans, cancer research, industrial surgery, treatment of fractures, eye-ear-nose-&-throat surgery, care of crippled children. Acrimonious was the discussion on hospitals. Charged William James Mayo: "I would call attention to the clandestine-if I may use so opprobious a term-method of increasing hospital income by exorbitant charges...
...World engineering congress at Tokyo. Oct. 31-Mme. Marie Curie honor guest of American Society for the Control of Cancer, in Manhattan. Medicine...