Word: cured
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Cancer, second worst killer in the U. S. (heart disease is first), is on the increase. Its cause is undetermined, its cure possible only when the disease is attacked in its early stages by surgery, X-rays or radium. In its advanced stages the specialist can only make the patient more comfortable while he slowly, painfully dies. Two California doctors, Walter Bernard Coffey and John Davis Humber, think they have found a palliative or cure in an extract made from part of the adrenal cortex of sheep. They patented their extract, have been running a free clinic in San Francisco...
...Cure of malignant disease in patients with advanced carcinoma or sarcoma (cancer), in view of the experience of the patients of this series, cannot reasonably be expected to occur as a result of the use of the suprarenal cortex extract...
...incurable,? this rare disease blighted the last of the Romanovs as it blights the last of the Bourbons. Tsar Nicholas II discovered too late that Tsarina Alexandra was a "carrier," that their son the Tsarevitch Alexis was a haemophile. The frantic mother's efforts to find a cure for her son brought her under the sway of Rasputin, the "Black Monk," who seemed for a time to be able to stop the Tsare-vitch's bleeding and promised a cure. Monk Rasputin's ascendancy over Tsar & Tsarina was a major factor in the House of Romanov's fall. There...
...sending him back to his execution. Bearded Sikh policemen in Singapore arrested the French Communist Serge La France and shipped a bundle of incriminating documents to French authorities. After studying this batch of evidence the French Colonial Office realized that the guillotine may not have been the ideal cure. Minister of the Colonies Paul Reynaud left his desk in Paris and hurried East for four months. While he is in Indo-China beheadings will be suspended. Said a spokesman for Paul Reynaud, "M. Le Ministre will examine sympathetically native grievances...
...Alfred Washington Adson of the Mayo Clinic reported the cure of many cases of Buerger's Disease by stripping from the affected arteries all the nerves which transmit irritating stimuli...