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Word: cancerous (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Lead v. Cancer. To the indignation of other cancer specialists who have found lead treatments ineffective for cancer, Dr. Arnold Erwin Osterberg & associates of Rochester, Minn. insisted that they cured seven cases of hopeless cancer by giving the patients enough lead phosphate to poison them. Before the patients lost control of their wrists or went mad, Dr. Osterberg gave them intravenous injections of calcium salts. This procedure overcame the effects of lead poisoning, expelled the lead from the patients' systems. By that time the cancers had begun to disappear, eventually vanished. The chemistry back of Dr. Osterberg...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Chemotherapy | 9/2/1935 | See Source »

...experimenter's declared purpose was to learn whether tuberculosis, cancer and syphilis might not be cured by prolonged freezing. Before entering the icebox Jekal was tuberculous. After his resuscitation Dr. Willard examined the blood for tubercle bacilli, found none. It was his theory that cold inactivated the germs, prevented them from propagating...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Jekal & Mr. Simkhovitch | 8/19/1935 | See Source »

...facts deduced by Drs. Haggard & Greenberg. He also agrees with the inferences which Camels considered expedient to exploit. But alongside those chips of fact he placed other chips: morphine, cocaine, strychnine, chloral hydrate, carbon monoxide, bichloride of mercury, ether, chloroform, diphtheria, tuberculosis, syphilis, influenza, typhoid fever, burns, asphyxia, hemorrhage, cancer, all stimulate the adrenals, cause a similar chemical increase of sugar in the blood. In the case of the intoxicants, biochemists find a temporary "lift" similar to that of nicotine. In the case of the infections, there might also be a perceptible feeling of well being, were...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Pick-Me-Up Let Down | 7/29/1935 | See Source »

Died, George William Russell ("AE"), 68, Irish poet, painter, editor, agriculturist; of cancer; in Bournemouth, England...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jul. 29, 1935 | 7/29/1935 | See Source »

Died. Andre Gustave Citroen, 57, French motorcar tycoon; of cancer; in Paris...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jul. 15, 1935 | 7/15/1935 | See Source »

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