Word: cunningham
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Henry H. Timken, president of Timken Roller Bearing Co., Canton, Ohio, began to spend virtually a million dollars last week so that Dr. Orval James Cunningham of Kansas City, Mo., might study and test his treatment of certain cases of diabetes, pernicious anemia and cancer by putting the patients in tanks filled with air under pressure. Mr. Timken has spent $165,000 for a ten-acre plot of land on the Lake Erie shore at Cleveland's eastern limits and, last week, had agents apply for a building permit to construct the first steel tank, to be 64 feet...
...Cunningham, aged 47, is a graduate (1904) of Rush Medical College, Chicago; a Kansas City specialist in internal medicine; a member of the Associated Anesthetists of the U. S. and Canada; a fellow, through his local medical society, of the American Medical Association...
...forms of diabetes, pernicious anemia and cancer are caused by germs that can grow only in the "absence of free oxygen. The corollary of this theory is that if the body tissues are made to absorb and carry enough air, the oxygen will prevent such germs developing. So Dr. Cunningham puts his patients into shut rooms where air pressure of 10 to 50 pounds a square inch more than ordinary is maintained and keeps them there for from a few hours to a month. Some patients merely spend their nights in the tank treatment rooms; others live and sleep...
Meanwhile in a nearby room stayed Deputy Marshall Henry Cunningham, assigned to "guard" the patient. It was rather a sinecure position-in fact, the Deputy spent much of his time strolling about Greenville, and watching the goldfish in the fountain before the hospital. There were six goldfish and the deputy (said despatches) amused themselves thinking up names for them...
...Bartlett, Lawrence Batchelder, Dudley Bell, A. C. Bemis, G. A. Blowers, R. D. Bolster, S. E. Bowditch, L. S. Brayton, G. C. Bruen, B. G. Burbank, A. F. Callahan, J. F. Carr, C. M. Clark, E. L. Cox, Gardener Cox, George Crawford, J. P. Crosby, R. McD. Cunningham, Langdon Dearborn, D. P. Donaldson, R. T. Dunn, George Eaton, T. H. Eliot, A. V. Ellis, Herbert Farnsworth, R. G. Fiske, LeB. R. Foster, H. C. Fox. D. A. Garrison, W. B. Gentleman, Walter Gierasch, R. E. Gregg, W. I. Gregg, F. R. Griffin, J. M. Hallowell, R. L. Batch...