Word: cancerous
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Frank Albert Nemee, 3D.D.S. The list of speakers and their subjects was also announced and is as follows:--November 9, Dr. W. B. Cannon '96, "The Element of Chance in Research." December 8, Dr. P. E. Boyle, "Abnormalities in the Calcification of Teeth." January 12, Dr. C. C. Suminous, "Cancer." February 9, Seminar night, at which the Juniors will read their tutorial papers--Dr. G. H. Wright in charge. March 9, Dr. R. J. Nagle, "Researches in Metallurgy." April 13, Ladies Night--no speaker as yet. May 11, Graduates' Night--fellowships awarded...
...last year only one physician died of infantile paralysis, scarlet fever, anthrax, parrot fever, or undulant fever. Of 2,952 U. S. doctors who died during the year (average age: 63.8-) heart disease killed 1,065, cerebralhemorrhage 365, pneumonia 312, hardening of the arteries 252, kidney ailments 237, cancer 236, blood poisoning 45, influenza 36. Sixty-four committed suicide (most by shooting, only five by poisoning); 139 were killed accidentally (two took overdoses of medicine; one caught his head in a drawer of a wardrobe trunk; one overbaked himself in an electric cabinet...
Other Billings credits: raising the standards of U. S. medical education; preventing the sale of harmful and spurious medicines; establishment of the Sprague Institute (studies of tuberculosis, heredity in cancer and degenerative diseases); persuading John Davison Rockefeller to let the University of Chicago have a thoroughgoing medical centre. Towards this Dr. Billings and relatives gave $1,000,000.* Dr. Billings' share was $100,000. Had Dr. Billings lived until his 79th birthday next April, he then would have received an "Homage Book," tribute of his onetime pupils. That project now is abandoned. At the time of his death...
Died. Edith Rockefeller McCormick, 59, daughter of John Davison Rockefeller: of cancer of the liver; in Chicago...
After pausing for two weeks at the door of a bedroom in Chicago's Drake Hotel, last week Death came, as it must to all women, to Edith Rockefeller McCormick. Once she was called the world's richest woman. But cancer makes no distinctions. Two years ago she had a growth removed from her breast. It reappeared in her liver. When she moved to the Drake from her mansion on Lake Shore Drive in June (TIME, Aug. 1), she and her doctors knew the end was near...