Word: cancerous
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fool in dealing with doctors, businessmen and sick people, Dr. Calvin Hendry Cameron Connell of Kingston, Ont., whom the Press widely but ignorantly last week saluted as the Conqueror of Cancer, had already taken care to incorporate the Hendry Connell Research Foundation, Ltd. (capital, $50,000) to keep benign control of his system of treatment. Previously he had patented the manufacture of the hypodermic solution he uses and taken a copyright on Ensol, his apt name for the solution...
...suffer from asthma, Bright's disease, bronchitis, cancer, tumors, varicose veins, any other chronic disease...
...Auto Crashes Every Year!"); a scene in an operating room (''Prominent Senator Succumbs to Emergency Operation!"); a street accident ("Pedestrian Killed Crossing Street!"); a row of dead lying beside a table ("Poison Food Kills 469 at Old Settlers' Picnic!"); a volcano erupting ("Earthquakes, Floods, Cancer and Pestilence Kill Thousands Every Day!"). Beneath this billboard of horrors appeared a citizen, newspaper in hand, turning to his wife exclaiming: "But nothing ever seems to happen to Huey Long...
...Medical Research in Manhattan has a reputation with the man-in-the-street equal to that of a minor volunteer worker at the Institute named Charles Augustus Lindbergh. Familiar only to the small scientific circle is the mighty attack of Dr. Florence Sabin upon the germ of tuberculosis. Every cancer specialist is aware of Rous's sarcoma but outside the Institute's walls Dr. Peyton Rous is a personal unknown. It took a Nobel Prize in 1930 and the recent use of his blood analysis in bastardy cases to put Dr. Karl Landsteiner into the lay Press. Long...
...Soon as the news reached Manhattan, Memorial Hospital, U. S. headquarters for cancer information, warned: "Lead therapy was abandoned at Memorial Hospital after extensive experience. The general toxic effects were found to be too severe. It can be stated that no method of combating the chronic toxic effects of lead has been found. . . . No new results of newer lead therapy methods seem to justify raising new hopes...