Word: extractive
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...done it, the Commissioner wanted to know. Diet, exercise and massage, smiled Rose. First she had tried thyroid extract but doctors told her it was dangerous. Last summer she took up tennis, horseback riding, mountain climbing-still without dropping a pound. Finally she went to Manhattan's Dr. Gerald Schuman who put her on the successful diet. It was a hard, quiet campaign. Said her attorney: "She refused an offer of $5,000 to endorse a reducing salt...
...Coffey. Being impatient with the slowness of orthodox doctors in double-checking new remedies, he let newspapers know that he felt pretty certain that he had a remedy for cancer. California's Senator Hiram Johnson helped matters by letting Dr. Coffey expound his ideas about the cortical extract which abated cancer before a Senate Committee...
...have treated 7,513 patients with supra-corcin, our extract of the adrenal cortex. Of these, 3,872 died before they could receive the minimum amount of treatment needed for more than relief from pain. We selected 1,040 of the others because there was no doubt that they had hopeless, inoperable cancer. Five years after treatment 53 or 5% of these 1,040 are entirely free from any sign of cancer. In another 55 cases the growths have become inactive...
Month ago the Depression-made hair-shirt of popular disgust formerly worn in North America by Herbert Hoover was transferred to Canada's rich and pious Conservative Premier Richard Bedford Bennett, an able and aggressive businessman who neither drinks nor smokes but has been seen by intimates to extract furtively from the bottom drawer of his desk a chocolate cream. In desperation good Mr. Bennett attempted briefly to ape President Roosevelt's New Deal (TIME. Jan. 14) but this was dead in Canada last week and all but forgotten. From the first, Canada's alert voters sensed...
Tuberculosis, Asthma, Colds. Extracts of the adrenal glands, chief exhilarators of the human system, prevent tuberculosis, cure asthma and common colds, Dr. Francis Marion Pottenger of Monrovia, Calif. reported. But, an asthmatic child needs the extract from five to 20 steers for a single month's treatment, an asthmatic adult the extract from 20 to 30 steers. For lack of steers, Dr. Pottenger begged chemists to hurry invention of synthetic adrenal hormones...