Word: cure
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Greene is right, a cure for cancer may depend on finding the unknown factor that arrests the development of embryonic cells. To prove that there is only a thin dividing line between embryonic tissue and cancer, he treated embryonic tissue with cancer-inducing chemicals and implanted the treated tissue in animals. Result: the animals developed cancers in record time...
Chloromycetin is related to streptomycin, but unlike streptomycin it can be taken by mouth without harmful results. What excites researchers most: in animal tests it has proved a potent cure for certain rickettsial diseases, caused by tiny, bacteria-like organisms that have resisted previous "wonder drugs...
Acute diarrhea, the most dreaded epidemic disease of newborn babies, kills thousands every year.* Doctors do not know its cause or cure. But last week a doctor described a treatment (already proved quite successful) that may save many a young life...
...Memorial, as elsewhere, surgery, radium and X rays are still the basic, most successful treatments. Some 90% of Memorial's patients are operated on (the hospital's "fiveyear cure" rate for stomach cancer: 25%). But Memorial is also pioneering in hormones for breast and prostate cancers, radioactive iodine for thyroid cancers, nitrogen mustards for Hodgkin's disease, radioactive phosphorus for certain forms of leukemia, a urine test for early cancer detection, studies of an extract of the adrenal gland, which looks like a hopeful candidate against stomach cancer...
Belief in the omnipotent effects of this cure-all reforms a corrupt mayor, causes his daughter to see the light, and returns to the Mudhens their ace pitcher after an ill-started affair with an evil member of the opposing team. Sweetness, light, and reform are spread among all the citizenry...