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...tonic, and Harry Hoxsey's special treatment, have brought him wealth -and fame of a sort. He has been denounced as a charlatan by the A.M.A.; the U.S. Food and Drug Administration regards his tonic as worthless as a cancer cure. Yet some 40 new patients a day keep coming to the Hoxsey Cancer Clinic in Dallas, hoping for the miracle cure-at $300 to $400 a treatment ("charity" patients pay little or nothing). Hoxsey friends are now trying to extend his domain beyond Texas. For weeks an attempt to establish a new Hoxsey clinic in Pennsylvania has been...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: The Great Humiliation | 8/9/1954 | See Source »

...Does Dr. Hayakawa feel that these songs of "ineffectual nostalgia, unrealistic fantasy, self-pity, etc." are, as the record men claim, what the public wants? ... If the good doctor can supplement his diagnosis of the "disease" with a possible formula for the cure, I will pledge myself to the fight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Aug. 2, 1954 | 8/2/1954 | See Source »

...these hams primp their feathers and strut their plumes. I will proceed to maltreat and obliterate them. I will turn loose such terrific voltage and velocity and elliptical trajectory that when it lands on the cleft of the chin it will tear loose their medulla oblongata from the pericranium, cure them of chronic dandruff and knock out four of their impacted wisdom teeth." Whereupon Wild Red went into the ring and was promptly disqualified by the referee for refusing to break a hold when ordered. Wild Red took a deep breath and applied his new hold to those...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Gift of Gab | 7/19/1954 | See Source »

...short step in a long, hard fight, and that every seeming victory may prove a wasted effort. Nevertheless, research scientists at Manhattan's Sloan-Kettering Institute last week proudly announced a victory that may mean great gains in a major sector: the search for a chemical cure for cancer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Gain? | 7/19/1954 | See Source »

...still to come-the testing of these and other compounds on transplanted human cancers in rats and mice (TIME, April 20, 1953). The results so far, said the institute's director, Dr. Cornelius Rhoads, "justify the hope that further study may reveal compounds capable of achieving permanent cure...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Gain? | 7/19/1954 | See Source »

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