Word: cancerous
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...important fact Laval did not have, as he stepped on the Express du Nord in Paris: that Dictator Pilsudski was fast dying of cancer (see p. 21). When the train stopped for 20 minutes in Berlin, he expected what he got, scant attention from anybody except the French Ambassador. But he was chilled to the marrow, when the train pulled up on a well-guarded siding in Warsaw, by the strange stiffness of the top-hatted Poles. Foreign Minister Josef Beck explained that Pilsudski had a little hangover of influenza, proceeded to do the honors with a cold and abstracted...
...Lawrence and his associates have done the most intensive work in the U.S. on artificial radioactivity. Lately the young physicist succeeded in inducing radioactivity in sodium. Since common salt contains sodium, the prospect immediately arose of injecting harmless but radioactive saline solutions into the human body as a cancer remedy. Few weeks ago Dr. Lawrence was appointed a research consultant of Columbia University's Crocker Institute for Cancer Research...
Avoiding idleness after his retirement from Prudential promised to be a serious problem until Dr. Hoffman's good friend Samuel S. Fels, the philanthropic Philadelphia soapmaker, gave him a special bank account which enabled him to pursue his studies of cancer. At the University of Pennsylvania's Hoffman Cancer Li-brary-to which he gave 10,000 cancer histories and 65,000 cancer death certificates-he is now developing a study of diet and nutrition in relation to cancer...
Died, Dr. Adolph Monaelesser, 79, surgeon-in-chief of the American Red Cross during the Spanish-American War, later researcher in the therapeutic effects of snake venom in cancer and nerve ailments;* of chronic leucemia, possibly the result of inhaling particles of powdered cobra venom in 1930; in Manhattan...
...purposes of this act the advertisement of a drug representing it to have any therapeutic effect in the treatment of Bright's disease, cancer, tuberculosis, poliomyelitis, venereal diseases, heart and vascular diseases, shall be deemed to be false; except that no advertisement shall be deemed to be false if it is disseminated only to members of the medical and pharmaceutical professions or appears only in the scientific periodicals of these professions...