Word: drs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Drs. Coffey & Humber gave crude extracts of adrenal cortex to victims of cancer. Many of them at once declared that they felt better. A very few recovered from what may or may not have been cancer ulcers...
...Kingston. After due orthodox experiments on cancerous mice, young Dr. Connell began to inject the sterile nitrate of such dissolved cancers into the muscles and veins of dying Kingston cancer victims. One of the first was a prisoner of Ontario's dreadful Portsmouth Penitentiary, close to which the Drs. Connell have their homes...
Last week the belief was further discredited when, as a result of questioning the parents of 582 malformed children born in Philadelphia. Drs. Douglas Power Murphy & Milton Mazer concluded that the most numerous spoilage of the family tree does not occur among firstborn. By means of analytical charts published in the American Medical Association Journal those Philadelphia physicians demonstrated that in large families the eldest four are usually the soundest. The fifth and sixth are occasionally malformed. Women who have been pregnant nine or more times produce three times as many errors as does the average woman...
Last week Drs. William Thalhimer & Sidney Older Levinson of Chicago recommended a cure for this disease. In the American Medical Association Journal they pointed out that Streptococcus haemolyticus belongs to the family of germs which cause scarlet fever and erysipelas...
...their command Drs. Thalhimer & Levinson have a supply of serum taken from the blood of Chicagoans recently recovered from scarlet fever. This serum ordinarily is used in the treatment of severe attacks of scarlet fever. Drs. Thalhimer & Levinson injected some into patients dying of Streptococcus haemolyticus infection. Only one out of five thus treated died. If scarlet fever serum is not available, the Chicago doctors recommend transfusion of whole blood from a suitable donor who has recently recovered from scarlet fever...