Word: cancerous
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Brooklyn, N. Y., Claude Joseph ("Brad") Bradley, cement salesman whose friends recently celebrated his approaching death with a bang-up party (TIME, July 31), still had cancer of the spine, still lived, although Mayo Clinic physicians gave him only a few weeks in May. Said Salesman Bradley, hearty, slightly more hale and still selling plenty of cement: "The old docs tell me I'm getting along swell. For a dead man I'm doing all right...
...Nearest approach to a real death ray is the 19-million-volt stream of subatomic particles produced at the University of California by Ernest Orlando Lawrence's giant new cyclotron. This 225-ton machine, whose operators shield themselves by water-tank barricades, can kill white mice and destroy cancer cells at popgun range. Installed in a front-line trench it would have less effect on an enemy soldier at 50 feet than one well-aimed rifle bullet...
Died. Dr. Sigmund Freud, 83, exiled Austrian, father of psychoanalysis; of cancer and heart disease; in his son's home in Hampstead, England. Throughout his last 16 years he suffered pain from cancer of the jaw, saw his books burned by Nazis, his ideas distorted by exaggeration, overpopularity, licentious application. Never lamenting his persecution and illness, he waited for death patiently, his only complaint: "It is tragic when a man outlives his body...
...Rutherford tried cobra venom injections on 17 women, most of them victims of incurable cancer. Of the 17, eight felt completely relieved (several even gained weight, went back to work), seven told him their pain was greatly diminished. Only two had poor results. Other physicians, said Dr. Rutherford, are trying venom injections for relief of pain caused by chronic arthritis, heart disease, gangrene. Advantages over morphine: 1) venom lasts longer (morphine may wear off in three hours) ; 2) it is not habit-forming...
...being in a position . . . [because of time and money] ... to continue the experiments," said Dr. Davidson, "I made a bold step, administering the filtrate to a human subject with carcinoma of the breast, who had previously been given a special high vitamin-content diet." To his delight, the cancer dried up, and in a year the woman was able to walk three or four miles every day. However, when she left her vitamin diet, the cancer soon returned and she died shortly afterward. Another patient, who suffered from cancerous growths on the side of his neck, was cured after...