Word: cancerous
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Prof, and Mme. Curie, of the Univ. of Paris−Radio-activity, whence cancer cure...
During the meeting of the American Medical Association several smaller medical organizations met. At one of these there was a revival of interest in a cancer serum discovered by one Dr. Koch of Detroit. An investigation made by the Wayne County Medical Society showed that the evidence was not sufficient to warrant any belief in the virtues of the method. At the same time the Philadelphia North American sponsored a story about a serum promoted by one Dr. Glover of Toronto. Investigations by the Toronto Academy of Medicine and by Dr. Francis Carter Wood failed to show any scientific substantiation...
...housed in the New York City Cancer Institute and is equipped with enough radium to cure 2.000 people, a room for fluoroscopy, a 200,000-volt apparatus for deep therapy, many other cancer-curing devices...
...clinic is particularly for those people who cannot go to private hospitals, and any impecunious person who suspects that he has cancer has but to drop in for free treatment. As far as resources are concerned, the clinic will have the City Hospital on Welfare Island behind it, and the use of some of that hospital's 12,000 beds...
...Charles H. Mayo of Rochester, Minn., at the opening ceremony, said: "We are going to conquer cancer and rid the world of it, regardless of the cost." He declared that he did not know whether the cure would be effected through a serum or radium. His predictions were evidently for the former, for he declared that medicine could cure the ills of the nation?Congress, morons, lunatics, Harry Thaw and newspaper headlines...