Word: cancerous
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...leer. "His guilt sticks in his gullet," their look said. If his guilt is all that sticks there, declared Dr. J. D. Osmond to the Radiological Society of North America in Atlantic City, last week, it will not harm him. But if it is his food, he may get cancer. Said Dr. Osmond: "Prolonged nervous strain and gulping of food, such as many American business men experience today, is highly dangerous. It is apt to produce what is known as cardiospasm, when the nerves do not coordinate, and when food which is swallowed does not get into the stomach...
...stood making an address. His voice was loud, distinct, but his lips never opened. Language issued from his head as from that of a ventriloquist's dummy. For this man, one Charles Kendrick, had no larynx, no vocal cords. These had been removed in an operation for cancer of the throat, in their place put a silver tube which emerges from the throat of Mr. Kendrick and is held in place by a neat black ribbon which passes around his neck underneath his collar. He has learned to talk by bringing the sound up from his stomach. The Society...
...workings, Professor E. L. Chaffee A.M. '08 has been engaged in experiments on a single portion, the retina. The belief that the physical approach to an understanding of the eye will produce more rapid results than psychological experiments has actuated Professor Chaffee. Now after several years' aid from the Cancer Commission, he is enabled by the Milton awards to continue his experiments for another year...
...return for the slight cancer relief they have effected, for the innumerable swallowed forks, wandering needles, fractured bones, molar cavities they have located, Röntgen or X-rays have levied heavy toll on the flesh of Science. Last week, the press carried accounts of Dr. Frederick H. Baetjer, Professor of Röntgenology at Johns Hopkins University, who has undergone 52 digi- tal amputations in 16 years as the result of continuous work with X-rays. Burns from malignant constituents of the rays induce a disintegration of the tissues called radiodermitis. Dr. Baetjer's sacrifices to his work...
...significance of the discovery (if valid) is that it will open a new field for cancer-cure experiments, using the X-ray purged of its injurious radiations...