Word: extract
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...annual meeting of the American Association for Cancer Research, a report on the Clinic re-echoing the warnings of Drs. Coffey & Humber was read by Dr. Burton Thorn Simpson, who spent three weeks there observing. Said he: "I did not observe that this treatment [injection of an extract derived from the cortex of the adrenal glands] had any beneficial result and I would certainly advise against any patient going there in hope of a cure. ... A cancer cure . . . must cause cancer to disappear ... for at least five years. The Coffey treatment has been applied for only three or four months...
...11th anniversary of the Amritsar Massacre (when over 300 Indian men and women were shot down by British troops) half a million natives gathered on the beach near Bombay to scoop up water, extract forbidden salt by evaporation. Towards evening a huge, blood-red papier-mache monster, symbolizing the salt tax, was dumped into the ocean...
Bone drys can extract little comfort from the returns. In the aggregate they are distinctly unfavorable to an uncompromising prohibition program and they dispose effectively of the delusion that when the "dying generation of topers" disappears, dryness will become as prevalent as aridity in Gobi...
...conduct one at Wisconsin. We believe that the duty of the congressional committee, if it is to call itself an intelligent and impartial and truly idealistic body, is first to determine the present extent of drinking by some absolute and uncontrovertible scale, as the consumption of grain, or juniper extract, or grapes; second, to investigate statistics of crime, poverty, accidents and the like, but refusing to accept the statistics offered either by anti-saloon leagues or by anti-prohibition committees; third, to study all other present plans for legally enforced temperance, and to investigate realistically the conditions which would contribute...
...appointment of two Harvard men to a commission which will hasten to San Francisco to investigate the Coffee-Humber method of treating cancer by adrenal extract was announced on Saturday. R. B. Greenough '92, assistant professor of Surgery in the Medical School, and C. C. Little '10, will collaborate with the San Francisco doctors in their experiments with cancer sufferers...