Word: cancers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fight against cancer, doctors may be putting too much emphasis on cures and too little emphasis on prevention, warned Dr. W. C. Hueper of the National Cancer Institute, speaking this week to the Washington Cancer Society...
...round table with his father, munching candy and playing with a plastic toy automobile. "Mon petit Réal," the woman pleaded, "my kidneys make me very sore at night. What shall I do?" "Big old fool," snapped Réal, "I am fed up. You have a cancer." He ran from the room shouting to his father: "We are going to have 700 cars Sunday. Money will come in, eh, Papa?" Papa pulled the boy back into the room. Réal then told the woman to pray. As she left, she put a $10 bill in the center...
...currently doing cancer research at the Children's Hospital in Boston, and acts as adviser to the Harvard Premedical Society...
Died. August Krogh, 74, Danish-born scientist, winner of the 1920 Nobel Prize in medicine and physiology (he discovered the regulation of the motor mechanism of capillaries, took motion pictures of blood cells flowing through the capillaries of living tissue); of cancer; in Copenhagen...
Among the viruses (which cause such familiar diseases as measles, chickenpox, colds, influenza and mumps) are many which prove more damaging to a healthy body. Sick chickens are more resistant to cancer than healthy ones. Undernourished guinea pigs are better able to ward off foot-and-mouth disease...