Word: cancerous
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...before the Civil War a German known to medical history only as G settled in wild Washtenaw County, Michigan, near the village of Ann Arbor. As Indians withdrew into the northern forests, Pioneer G cleared woodlands, cultivated crops, bred children. When at the age of 60 he died of cancer of the intestines in 1856, he left ten children. Four of his five sons, two of his five daughters subsequently died of cancer. The third generation of G's numbered 70, of whom 33 died of cancer...
...fourth generation of this remarkable cancer family was breeding away when it came to the attention of the late (1866-1931) Professor Aldred Scott Warthin, University of Michigan pathologist. From an intelligent young woman of the family, who shortly after died of cancer, Professor Warthin got the family's genealogy and history. From medical records and his own observations he learned enough to state in 1913 that "in certain families [there is] an inherited susceptibility to cancer." By 1925, when he published a second study of the G family, Dr. Warthin was surer than ever of the "recessive familial...
...Liebeault, Lloyd Tuckey. It is generally agreed among psychiatrists that hypnotism is of value in treating stammering and certain hysterical neuroses. Dr. Cannon believes it is useful in treating tetanus, diabetes, prostatic enlargement, menstrual disorders and in relieving the pain of childbirth, pleurisy, sciatica, lumbago, neuralgia, cancer, ulcers...
Died. Thomas Meighan, 57, oldtime cinemactor (The Miracle Man); of influenza and cancer; at Great Neck...
...alcohol, Jamaica ginger, carbon monoxide, ether). Toxins may be generated, among other ailments, by childbed fever or diabetes. Neuritis may be the result of infections like diphtheria, typhoid, scarlet fever, measles, rheumatism, mumps, gonorrhea, smallpox, pneumonia, blood poisoning, malaria, tuberculosis, syphilis. It may be due to chronic anemia, senility, cancer, arterial disease...