Word: cervix
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...finger: "Clarence Cook Little, you're a big handsome numskull." Roared Dr. Little, 48: "You're not a geneticist, Maude Slye." Cancer Detector- Dr. Walter Schiller of the University of Vienna, offered a simple new way of determining whether or not a woman has cancer of the cervix...
...paints it with iodine. If the cervix is healthy, the iodine makes the surface turn blue. If there is the slightest trace of cancer, that spot will turn white. Dr. Schiller urged all adult women to have the iodine test every six months, at least once a year...
...physician or nurse, resulting in puerperal infection; lack of sufficient good maternity hospitals; insufficient obstetrical training for the general physician; inadequate prenatal care; prevalence of attempts to shorten labor by use of pituitrin to quicken uterine contractions, application of forceps, turning of the baby, forced dilation of the cervix, caesarean operations...
...rare in the Negro than in the white race, and that Negroes may even possess a sort of immunity to cancer in general." Of this Dr. Everett Lassiter Bishop of Atlanta was skeptical. In Atlanta's Steiner Cancer Clinic he found as many cancers of the breast and cervix in Negroes as in whites. Young Atlanta Negresses more often than young Atlanta white women have cervical cancer. Thinking that Negroes might have black cancer more often than Dr. Matas et al. believed, Dr. Bishop went hunting for dark moles on full-blooded cancerous Negroes. For clues he looked first...
...cancers by x-rays or radium does not in itself stir up secondary cancers. That radiation cures a cancer in one part of the body only to metastasize or shift it into another part, has been a credible theory. Cancer of the skin often follows irradiation of the cervix. X-raying of bladder tumors is often followed by cancer of the bone-marrow, lung, liver or skin. Cancer of the neck or throat frequently follows cure of a lip cancer. Doctors almost never discuss such questionable points with their patients, seldom mention them in print. But as Dr. Wood remarked...