Word: cancerous
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Cancer Once again the death of Dr. Sun Yatsen, "perpetual rebel" was announced. Once more it was denied.* But an operation was performed upon the body of the Chinese leader. It was discovered that his liver was cancerous. Doctors said his case was hopeless. Unkind critics said that there was now real hope for peace and unity in China...
...question of medicine and the press was discussed by Dr. Morris Fishbein, erudite editor of the American Medical Association Journal. He declared that in the past year the press reported five tuberculosis cures and five cancer cures none of which was backed by scientific proof of any merit. Indeed, the press rarely if ever curries news of scientific discoveries which is , not sneered at by doctors, although important scientific discoveries have a great need of proper publicity. The difficulty, said Dr. Fishbein, was that it is difficult, almost impossible, to get men with adequate medical training who have journalistic ability...
...Cancer, black plague of modern civilization, grows in the U. S.; tuberculosis dwindles. Thus reported the Census Bureau last week, tabling medical returns for 1923. In a registration area containing 87.6% of the total population of the U. S., there were reported 86,754 deaths from cancer last year, an increase of 5,816 deaths over 1922. Tuberculosis deaths in the same area decreased from 97 to 93 per 100,000 population...
...Baltimore Medical Society, stood three voiceless men. They had been brought there by Dr. J. E. Mac-kenty of the Manhattan Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat Hospital to demonstrate an invention of his whereby, he claims, the voiceless may speak. These voiceless ones had been operated on for cancer of the throat; their larynxes removed. They were unable to breathe through their noses. Instead, they obtained air through holes cut in their necks. Over these air-holes they wore pads invented by Dr. Mackenty, from which tubes went up to mechanisms made in the simulacrum of the human vocal cords...
...Cancer is found in nearly all races, affecting the Negro least of all. In a lecture recently delivered before the British Empire Cancer Fund, Dr. Lester Samuels reported that there are about 525 deaths from cancer per million Jews to 800 deaths per million Gentiles. It is also apparent that certain forms of cancer seem to select certain races in preference to others...