Word: cancers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...named by an English author some time ago the unfulfilled obligations of medical science were two in number: to discover a remedy for cancer and to learn how to grow hair. While progress toward the first of these objectives has been slow, a beauty expert of New York has already achieved the second. The fruit of eighteen years study is a process revealed on Wednesday by which he can anchor any number of hairs to the scalp by means of tiny gold springs...
Senator du Font's throat was diseased from a "throat ulcer." For this he consulted Dr. John E. Mackenty, senior surgeon at the Manhattan hospital, who is famed for his technique in operations on cancer of the throat. Dr. Mackenty excised Senator du Pont's vocal cords, larynx and part of his tongue and windpipe. So that the senator could breathe, Dr. Mackenty cut a hole in the front wall of his neck and to it fastened the upper rim of his windpipe...
...Bovie, for the past six years Assistant Professor and Research Fellow in Bio-Physics in the University and a member of the Cancer Commission, has assumed charge of the newly-created department of Bio-Physics in the Medical School of Northwestern University in Chicago, it was announced yesterday...
Wells, famed British novelist; at Dunmow, England; of cancer. Dying a few hours before the marriage of her younger son Richard, she requested that the ceremony be performed and that no one wear mourning at her funeral...
...perfect the apparatus required three years of experimenting by Dr. Stanhope Bayne-Jones of the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Clifton M. Tuttle of Eastman Kodak Co. research laboratories. The pictures they secured were like those of growing cancer cells recently reported from London (TIME, July 25). What had taken three minutes to show had taken 44 hours to photograph...