Word: cancerous
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...familiar joke about the woman who went through so many operations that she asked for a zipper closure last week seemed about to become a reality. A Chicago man was having his abdomen kept open for weeks to permit surgeons gradually to cauterize a cancer in his stomach. Surgeons sewed the edges of the slit stomach to the edges of the slit abdomen. Then they fastened a section of zipper along each edge of the compound slit by means of adhesive tape. Now to close the abdominal hole until time for the next cauterization, the operator simply pulls the zipper...
Grateful Gloversville honored its stout, bald, walrus-mustached benefactor with a life-size statue of which Mr. Littauer, as a believer in useful monuments, disapproves on principle. Six years ago he established the Littauer Foundation which supports research into pneumonia, cancer, heart disease...
...Europe to report the 1915 International Congress of Women in Amsterdam. She ventured through War-time Germany just after the sinking of the Lusitania. She toured the French devastated areas to find out how the civilians were making out. She got home to find her husband dying of cancer...
During January such subjects as "Cosmetics--Safe and Dangerous", "Infantile Paralysis", and "Cancer" will be discussed by the leading authorities in their respective fields...
Since then his activities have been largely in the philanthropic field. In Gloversville he erected the Nathan Littauer Hospital and Laboratory in memory of his father. This led him to a broad interest in the support of medical research, particularly in the fields of pneumonia, diabetes, cancer, mental hygiene, and heart disease...