Word: cancerous
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. Harry Wardman, 65, Washington real-estate magnate; of cancer; in Washington. An English-born immigrant, he had seven shillings in his pocket when he arrived in Manhattan in 1892 after he had boarded a boat which he supposed was carrying him to Australia. Starting as a contractor's timekeeper, he entered the construction business in Washington, built upwards of 9,000 row houses, several hotels and apartment houses, was said to have been landlord to one in every ten Washingtonians. In 1930, when Hotel Management & Securities Corp. took over his apartments and hotels, he lost most...
Denied the use of human subjects, researchers make most of their cancer experiments on animals. One vicious type of animal cancer-"mouse sarcoma 180"-is highly resistant to such ordinary methods of treatment as radium and X-ray therapy. In very few cases does it dry up and disappear spontaneously. More important, mouse sarcoma 180 is a reliable subject on which to test the effectiveness of various treatments for human cancer...
...Mount Sinai Hospital decided to try spleen extract. The functions of the spleen, an organ in the upper left abdomen, are not wholly understood but one of them is to disintegrate red blood corpuscles and set free their hemoglobin. It has been observed that when bits of cancer are transported by the bloodstream to colonize elsewhere in the body, the spleen is seldom affected. Spleen extract had been tried against cancer before, without success. Dr. Lewisohn decided that was because the concentration was too weak...
...took 281 healthy white mice, implanted cancers under their right armpits by injections of tumor particles of mouse sarcoma 180. The spleen extract which he prepared to use was in high concentration. In most of the mice, hemorrhage then occurred at the cancer site. This was soon covered by a scab which in time was thrown off and the wound eventually healed. The cancer had disappeared, leaving no trace except a slight sparseness of hair over the region it once occupied. Five months after treatment there were no recurrences. In Surgery, Gynecology & Obstetrics last week Dr. Lewisohn gave the percentage...
...American Journal of Surgery last week he reported that he had treated dozens of diseases with spinal B, injections, including duodenal ulcers, tuberculosis, inoperable cancer, cardiac decompensation, uremia, anuria, tabes dorsales, multiple sclerosis. These were not all cured by any means, especially in the cancer cases, but in all cases there was a diminution of pain, the patients looked and felt better, and in some instances there was a rejuvenating effect which Dr. Stern attributed to the vitamin. His most touching case was an elderly woman who was almost pathologically addicted to sweets and had von Recklinghausen's disease...