Word: cancerous
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...London stated that Bonar Law, ex-Premier, is seriously ill. He may have to undergo an operation on his throat. Up to now Mr. Law has supported his valetudinarian existence with calm resignation. He saw only his closest friends, followed the daily political moves, played many rubbers of bridge. Cancer of the throat is his trouble...
...Butts is engaged in cancer research in the hygienic laboratories of the University of Pennsylvania. His theories have attracted favorable attention from Dr. William H. Woglom, assistant director of the Crocker Laboratory, New York, and other cancer experts...
...That cancer is caused by a disturbed electro-chemical balance in the cells of the human body is the theory presented by Donald C. A. Butts, physiological chemist of the Pennsylvania State Department of Health, supported by experimental evidence from rats, and harmonizing with what is known of treatments having a beneficial effect on cancer...
...Butts experimented with a galvanometer and an electric circuit on nearly 200 pairs of rats, one cancerous, the other healthy. The cancer tissue acted exactly like the positive pole, and the normal rat, the negative, in an ordinary dry-cell circuit He proved that cancerous tissue has an excess of positive charge which may be neutralized by the application of an equal negative charge. This explains why X-ray and radium treatment, in which the alpha or positive rays are screened off by a lead shield, while the beta and gamma rays (negative) are allowed to reach the diseased tissue...
Died. Ivan Kharin, Russian general and sometime mine owner, of cancer of the throat, at Copenhagen. Before the war he was so rich that he " never traveled by train, but always in a cortege of luxuriously ap- pointed automobiles.'' (See page...