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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Cancer "Cures." Good news to enemies of quack cancer "cures" were two court actions last week. In St. Louis three years ago Mrs. G. W. Haggard discovered a pea-sized lump in her right breast. A surgeon advised an immediate operation. More attractive was the prospect held out by Drs. John E. and Edward C. Westaver, father & son, who promised a cure with their salves at $2 a treatment. After nine months in their care Mrs. Haggard died. In St. Louis medical experts testified that dallying with the worthless Westaver nostrums had cost her a chance of recovery through proper...
Last week another scaffolding, moldy with age, was being pounded to splinters by Drs. Donald H. Menzel of Harvard Observatory and J. C. Boyce of Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Since 1869 the light of the sun's spectacular corona, trapped in spectroscopes during the scant seconds of a total eclipse, has produced on the spectrogram five mysterious bright lines. Astronomers deduced that the corona, though mostly scattered sunlight, was partly self-luminous. What element made it so? Not knowing, they called it "coronium." As recently as last year, in a standard work on eclipses, "coronium" was treated with respect...
...artisanship." Drs. Charles Horace Mayo of Roches ter, Minn, and George Washington Crile were two others who boldly digressed from the strict business of surgery. Mayo on War. Dr. Mayo, who alternated with his elder brother Dr. William James Mayo as chief surgical consultant to the U. S. Army Medical Department during the War, who won the Distinguished Service Medal and is a brigadier general in the Medical Officers' Reserve Corps, was thinking last week that war again was imminent over Europe Cried he, speaking before the Chicago Association of Commerce: "The speed of the world has increased...
...When Drs. Warren and Waterhouse began their medical teaching, the Medical School was located in Holden Chapel, where it remained until 1810. It then moved into Boston, where in 1816 its first buildings were erected at Boylston and Exeter Streets, the site of Boston University today. In 1906 the present buildings on Longwood Avenue were first occupied. One hundred and thirty professors now lecture in place of the original...
Last week the Journal of the American Medical Association took note of Drs. McKhann & Chu's work and applauded: ''Certainly ... a new approach to the prophylaxis and treatment of infectious diseases...