Word: cancers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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From 1903 to the day of his death last October, Johns Hopkins' Dr. Joseph Colt Bloodgood. famed cancer pathologist, megaphoned to every human being with a mole upon his skin: "Beware of death-dealing black cancer! Watch that mole and, if it starts to grow, have it cut out before it is too late." Dr. Bloodgood believed with many another wise cancer specialist that it is worth scaring the wits out of 999 people in order to save the thousandth man from death by cancer...
Last week another Johns Hopkins pathologist, Dr. Dean Howard Affleck, 30, took up Dr. Bloodgood's megaphone and through the American Journal of Cancer sounded the same alarm...
...from Absorbine Jr. to Zymole Trokeys. A number of newspapers and magazines and the Mutual and Yankee radio networks, boasted the drug business censor, agreed to disseminate no advertising which he did not approve. Blacklisted with no appeal are drugs which claim to treat Bright's disease, tuberculosis, cancer, infantile paralysis, heart disease...
Eskimos do not suffer from diabetes or cancer, rarely from hardening of the arteries. Yet they subsist almost entirely on meat. The possible relationship between such absence of disease and the peculiar diet of Eskimos led Professor Israel Mordecai Rabinowitch of McGill University Faculty of Medicine to join the Canadian Government's Eastern Arctic Patrol on a nine-week cruise last summer among the Hudson's Bay Co. fur trading posts which fringe Hudson Bay and the great islands to the north. Having systematized his clinical, bacteriological, chemical and sociological findings among the Eskimos, Dr. Rabinowitch published them...
...thinks the overproduction of red cells is due to the abundance of copper in seafood. Eskimos do not suffer from diabetes, he believes, because long ago those who might have been susceptible died before they could breed susceptible children. He found only one case of what might have been cancer, several cases of arteriosclerosis among Eskimos living at the white settlements. No such cases were located among the most northerly, isolated Eskimos...