Word: cancerous
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...reported remedy for cancer developed by Dr. W. Blair Bell, of Liverpool, seems, on the basis of the meager information at hand, to be the most promising of all recent " cures" that have been suggested (TIME, May 19). Dr. Bell's specific is a solution of colloidal lead (a colloid is a gluelike, noncrystalline organic substance that will not pass through a membrane), which appears to have a marked effect on malignant growths like cancer. Dr. Bell has been experimenting with it for 18 years and has recently employed it in 50 cases given up by surgeons as hopeless...
Died. Orville Taylor Waring, 84, a colleague of John D. Rockefeller in the Standard Oil Co. and one of its original incorporators, of cancer, at Plainfield, N. J. He is survived by his second wife and eight children...
...prize for a " medicinal treatment for the effective cure of cancer" offered by Lord Atholstan, Montreal newspaper publisher (TIME, April 7), is attracting world-wide attention. Since the offer was made public, January 2, 1922, in a letter to Sir Arthur Currie, President of McGill University, more than 3,000 claims of cures have been submitted from 40 different nations. Some 400 are from faith healers, auto-suggestionists and other brands of fanatics. Of the others, many are palpably quackish or too weirdly fantastic to warrant investigation. Almost every plant known to botany has been claimed as a specific, with...
...cure for cancer. (P. 22.) Archbishops...
Denouncing Government regulation by commission as a cancer which has eaten into the stability of the railway industry, L. F. Loree, president of the Delaware and Hudson Railroad, declared at a dinner celebrating the first centennial of an American railroad, that the ineffectiveness of such regulation has made railroading "no longer a business but a calamity." Not only the railroads are being destroyed, said Mr. Loree, but the nation's liberties and the foundations of justice are crumbling as well. He urged that regulation by Government agency be rescinded, and a new policy adopted...