Word: cancerous
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Manhattan, Dr. C. Everett Field, director of the Radium Institute of New York, had vexed many physicians by advocating a cancer-cure nostrum of one Dr. William F. Koch of Detroit. Dr. Field's advocacy was the more dangerous because of the wide press publicity recently accorded his claimed ability to transmute diamond tints (TIME, Aug. 23). But, besides Dr. George A. Soper, who spoke officially as director of the American Society for the Control of Cancer, only two Manhattan physicians openly opposed Dr. Field's claims. They were Dr. David Bryson Delavan, a director of the American...
...Were informed by Minister of Health Neville Chamberlain that one out of every seven Englishmen who reach the age of 30 ultimately dies of cancer. "But," said Mr. Chamberlain, "a cure for cancer will come. . . . Tuberculosis, once thought incurable, is now the most curable of diseases...
...Significance of this brain-scattered little book is that it may be Stephen Leacock's last humorous publication. His wife died lately and he has been dedicating most of his time and energy to driving from the face of the earth the disease that killed her, cancer (TIME, Feb. 1, MEDICINE). However, his publishers have asked him to "discover America" as he did England (My Discovery of England, 1922), and it would indeed be surprising if circumstances could permanently stifle the prolific originality that has spurted from his pen for 16 years, and that has lately been applied, with...
...Rochelle, N. Y., the mourners for Miss Mary L. Merrill took sad pleasure in reading her will last week. She had directed that $25,000 go to the Rosary Hills Home for incurable cancer victims at Hawthorne...
Mother M. Alphonsa Lathrop, 75-year-old daughter of Poet Nathaniel Hawthorne, widow of Novelist George Parsons Lathrop (died 1898) had established this institution a few years after taking the veil (1899) to provide a place where destitute cancer victims could die in peace. No efforts to cure were made. "So long as they fretted about radium and operations, they were miserable," Dr. John L. Shells, physician to the institution, said only last week. "It seems to me that radium makes them worse, unless it is applied very early. . . .We let them alone and just keep them comfortable, and sometimes...