Word: cancerous
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. Sir James MacBrien, 59, Commissioner of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police; of cancer; in Toronto. A hard-bitten trooper who once said, "Security without peace is better than peace without security," Sir James mechanized the red-coated Mounties, giving them motorcars, airplanes, motorcycles, motorboats...
...Bronx and parts of Manhattan, is a "burl." It is only a coincidence, however, that the rare and curious burls from which the gaudiest veneers for furniture are made result from a tree disease somewhat similar to boils. Nobody knows what causes burls, as nobody knows what causes cancer. They form most often underground where the roots join the tree. Burl diggers notice a slight swelling of the trunk at the ground level, dig down, chop off the roots and lift out the burl. The surgery required for burls above ground is more simple; they are just sawed...
...Legalization of Euthanasia. For purposes of their propaganda the Miami incident came in handy, occurring as it did the very day after Dr. Potter first publicly announced his organization and revealed that its trustees included Dr. Clarence Cook Little of the American Society for the Control of Cancer and of the American Birth Control League, and Secretary Leon Fradley Whitney of the American Eugenics Society...
...cancer cells of the type called Ehrlich sarcoma are ground up, made into an emulsion and injected beneath the skins of mice, the animals invariably die. Drs. Alexandre Besredka and Ludwik Gross of the Pasteur Institute in Paris made small, weak doses of finely minced sarcoma tissue, injected them not beneath but in the skins of mice. In most of the animals metastases (cancer colonizations elsewhere in the body) took place and death followed. But in 10% the skin tumor caused by the injection dried up and disappeared and thereafter the mice were immune to that type of sarcoma...
Some light on the failure with chickens was cast by Dr. William Ewart Gye, director of Britain's Imperial Cancer Research Fund, who found that even in the blood of chickens with growing cancers there may be antibodies in amounts detectable by chemical means. "A hen may carry a tumor," he wrote, "and have at the same time more than enough of the immune body in its circulating fluids to neutralize the whole of the virus in its tumor, and the tumor nevertheless continues to grow." The reason appeared to be that the cancer virus takes refuge inside...