Word: cancers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Alexis Carrel of the Rockefeller Institute provided a generally acceptable explanation and description of cancer cells. Those malignant cells, he has found, do not grow faster than normal cells. Nor do they have more growth energy. Nor are they necessarily diseased. They do, however, differ from normal cells in their physiological properties. Chief difference is the fact that they use nitrogen. The nitrogen they get from proteins or protein-split products. And of those the body has an unlimited store. That is why cancer cells can multiply (not grow in size) so rapidly...
...kidney diseases, in blood poisoning. In peptic ulcer, meat digestion is not impaired so far as concerns the stomach's ability to secrete gastric juices. If a patient fails to secrete the juices on both meat and bread diets, that is serious. Such failure is a sign of cancer of the stomach, of pernicious anemia, of delayed healing in lobar pneumonia and inflammation of the gall bladder...
...Buick died of cancer at Harper Hospital, Detroit, after a month's illness. Shortly before going to the hospital he said: "I'm not feeling sorry for myself or worrying about the past. I'm not accusing anyone of cheating me. It was the breaks of the game that I lost out in the company I founded. I'm looking forward to the future. Money means nothing?except to insure comforts for the future...
Died. David D. Buick, 74, of Detroit, impoverished information clerk, motorcar pioneer; of cancer; in Detroit...
When Thomas Jefferson was through being president he retired to his country place in Virginia and took up his pen to continue influencing the country's history. President Grant stove off the fatal hand of cancer until his famous Memoirs were completed. Literary work alone would be enough to insure the fame of Theodore Roosevelt's name. Tomorrow morning Calvin Coolidge carries the tradition into Mr. Hearst's Cosmopolitan Magazine...