Word: cancerous
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...latest issue of a medical journal, the Lancet. Previous announcements (TIME, July 20), had informed them that in that journal would appear articles by Dr. W. E. Gye, a one-time ticket agent, by Mr. J. E. Barnard, a prosperous hatter, describing their attempts to isolate the cancer germ. Efforts to obtain advance copies of this gazette by judicious bribing of printers, proofreaders, carriers, had failed. The crowd waited. At 5:30 in the afternoon, the Lancet was issued...
...That cancer is caused by a virus ultra-minute germ) or group of viruses, and that it is this same virus that produces all kinds of cancers...
...That the virus alone cannot get a foothold in a living organism and cause cancer...
...passed. It became clear, for all the absurd extravagance of public rumor, that something unusual was afoot. Last week Mr. John Edwin Barnard, Hon. Secretary of the Royal Microscopical Society, permitted his name to be attached to an announcement: He and his colleagues believed that they had isolated the cancer germ ... A minute disturbance in a ray of light revealed by the most intricate methods of microscopy ever devised... Highly satisfactory experiments upon mice, in whose tissues, inflamed with coal tar, the injected cancer organism produced both sarcoma and carcinoma*. . . Experiments in far too early a stage to warrant...
...another august convention in Atlantic City-that of the American Bronchoscopic Society - Dr. Sidney Yankhauer, of Manhattan, described how cancer can be relieved by means of a chain made of three links, preferably platinum, with a capsule containing radium in each link, which, in a rubber casing and weighted with a gold ball, is swallowed by the patient and kept in the intestines several hours a day. Other cancer treatments were outlined by the learned members. All agreed that there was no cure...