Word: ferguson
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Russell Sweetser Ferguson of Manhattan's Memorial Hospital got the clue for his teratoma detector from Dr. Bernhard Zondek, German Jew now without a job (TIME, June 5). Dr. Zondek and Dr. Selmar Aschheim, his colleague, found that the pituitary gland of women enlarges during pregnancy and produces two sex hormones, Prolan A and Prolan B. As soon as a woman begins to gestate a baby she begins to create those hormones, and they promptly appear in her urine...
...pregnant women produce Prolan A and Prolan B, perhaps men with teratomata might produce the same sex hormones. In Manhattan Dr. Ferguson was excited by this surmise as was Dr. Zondek in Germany. Dr. Ferguson pounced on the premise. Memorial Hospital gave him plenty of teratoma cases and enabled Dr. Ferguson to announce last week (in the American Journal of Cancer) that the hormone test for teratomata is 98% positive. It detects a testicular monstrosity within three weeks of the onset of the swelling. The younger the teratoma, that is, the more primitive the fetal elements, the stronger...
...self-invited guest from Nicholasville, Ky. Said Mrs. South: ''Now my aim is to get to heaven." ¶ Started unaccompanied on a five-day trip by air to Los Angeles to visit her son Elliott. At Dallas she declined to be photographed with Governor "Ma" Ferguson & husband, explaining: "This is a personal trip-not political...
Engaged. Charles ("Chuck") Breasted, 34, son of the University of Chicago's famed Archeologist James Henry Breasted; and Martha Ferguson, 25, daughter of Mrs. John C. Greenway, friend of Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt. The engagement was inadvertently announced by Mrs. Roosevelt at a Press conference, when newshawks asked who her White House visitors "Martha and Chuck" were...
...general Professor Olsen and his research arsonists (George E. Ferguson, Leopold Scheflan) found three distinct layers of gases present in their burning room, "one at the ceiling, one on the floor, and an intermediate layer which consisted of more nearly pure air than either of the other two." A few moments of blaze, however, churns the layers together...