Word: cancerous
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...John Galsworthy are scarcely of school age. For Fannie Hurst's Gregrannie at the age of a hundred is still managing her fortune, fixing up the grandchildren when they get into those readily-soluble jams that are so common in novels, looking after the great-grandchildren, endowing cancer research and writing a book. Gregrannie takes her meals with the fam ily, makes wisecracks with her offspring, reads French and H. G. Wells's The Out line of History and recalls vividly the death of her mother in 1839, her work as a nurse in the Civil...
...engineer at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Dr, Richard Dresser, 43, an equally unobtrusive Boston Roentgenologist, will soon have in operation in Boston's Huntington Memorial Hospital a room-high electrostatic machine which will produce x-rays of 1,000,000-volt power, penetrating enough to reach any cancer within the human body. The principle of the machine is that of the 10,000,000-volt electrostatic generator which Engineer Trump's M. I. T. teacher, Robert J. Van de Graaff, invented (TIME, Dec. 4, 1933 et ante). Fast moving paper belts brush against an overhead metallic container...
Leaving victims of facial palsy to struggle within the coils of this expert dissension, the Eye, Ear & Throat specialists turned their attention to those perennially interesting individuals who talk with deep-throated belches. They have lost their vocal cords usually as result of cancer or accident. Dr. William Wallace Morrison of Manhattan, who has taught many to talk, presented some prize scholars who belong to the Lost Cord League, and explained his methods. The voiceless patient first learns to swallow air. This he does by relaxing his throat and gullet, and gulping. Quickly a big bubble of air accumulates...
Treatment of cancer is positive and often curative in cases of cancers which can be reached without cutting the patient open. Thus the rate of cure is comparatively high for cancers of the skin, breast, uterus. From those sites the surgeon usually can excise the offensive tumor or the radiologist can shrivel it with x-ray or radium. The great difficulty with cancers of internal organs is that they seldom warn the victim of their presence until it is too late to get rid of them. Nonetheless, surgeons can save the lives of an appreciable number of victims. Radiologists, guided...
Died, Berkeley George Andrew Moynihan, First Baron Moynihan of Leeds, 70, famed British surgeon; of shock following the death of his wife; in Leeds, England. International authority on cancer. Lord Moynihan twice achieved notoriety: in 1929 when he stated that German aviators dropped plague bacilli bombs on British forces during the War, again in 1935 when he organized the Voluntary Euthanasia Legalization Society in a crusade to legalize "mercy killings" of incurable patients by their physicians. Offered the honor of burying him in Westminster Abbey, Lord Moynihan's family refused, buried him near his wife in Leeds...