Word: clinics
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sufferers from cancer have been mortgaging their homes, impoverishing themselves to get funds to carry them to San Francisco to be treated by Drs. Walter Bernard Coffey and John Davis Humber at their Southern Pacific General Hospital Clinic. Over the protest of Drs. Coffey & Humber. newspapers have heralded as a cure what the Doctors refer to as "encouraging experiment" (TIME, Feb. 24). Deluded into believing that sure, swift relief could be given them, some 1,500 people have rushed to the Clinic, more than could possibly be handled...
Last week in Manhattan, at the annual meeting of the American Association for Cancer Research, a report on the Clinic re-echoing the warnings of Drs. Coffey & Humber was read by Dr. Burton Thorn Simpson, who spent three weeks there observing. Said he: "I did not observe that this treatment [injection of an extract derived from the cortex of the adrenal glands] had any beneficial result and I would certainly advise against any patient going there in hope of a cure. ... A cancer cure . . . must cause cancer to disappear ... for at least five years. The Coffey treatment has been applied...
...serum, he announced, has been used with "gratifying" results in the Bari Clinic Some of his patients showed marked improvement, others were definitely cured...
...observed through an application of the biological principle called 'vital standing.' The second was discovered by medical pathologists in their search for the effects of focal infection a research carried on in various parts of the world, with especially distinctive work done in this country at the Mayo Clinic and elsewhere...
...temporary hospital was thrown up which was the beginning of the world famed "Clinic City." Probably the only city of its type in the world, Rochester is a giant hospital. To it, each day, come hundreds of sufferers?by plane, train, motor, foot. All know that they will be treated. Twenty-five % are free cases; 30% pay the bare expenses of their own cases; 45% pay for running the Clinic. Besides the Brothers Mayo there are over 300 other medical men in town...