Word: coutard
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...difficulty with cancers of internal organs is that they seldom warn the victim of their presence until it is too late to get rid of them. Nonetheless, surgeons can save the lives of an appreciable number of victims. Radiologists, guided by Dr. Gioacchino Failla of Manhattan and Dr. Henri Coutard of Paris, both of whom spoke in Madison last week, are learning to focus x-ray beams of hundreds of thousands of volts upon cancerous internal organs and to bring about some cures. But no specialist can yet explain why radiations destroy cancers any more than a specialist can describe...
...Henri Coutard, chief of staff of Paris' Curie Institute: "Men born crippled or feeble-minded have been responsible for some of the great works of art. Why should their lives be taken...