Word: fibroid
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Nearly 1,000 Negro physicians, surgeons and dentists assembled last week in Philadelphia for the 42nd annual convention of the National Medical Association. As a symbol of interracial fraternity, Dr. Peter Marshall Murray, 46, gynecologist of New York City's Harlem Hospital, removed a multiple fibroid tumor from a patient in Philadelphia General Hospital, first piece of surgery ever performed by a Negro practitioner in that white hospital's long history...
...Oliver Hazard Perry Belmont, onetime wife of William Kissam Vanderbilt, in Paris, following a para lytic stroke; Soprano Rosa Ponselle, in New Haven, Conn., following removal of fibroid tumor; King Camp Gillette, 77, razor tycoon, in Los Angeles...
...becoming adapted to life in the hot regions. The expedition's report in regard to Onchocerciasis written at Moca, Guatemala, states that "Public health procedure should include inspection of the inhabitants in the endemic districts and the diagnosis of the cases with filarial tumors with prompt removal of the fibroid growths. The operations are simple and easily performed under local novocaine anesthesia. In case of an individual refusing to be operated upon, he should be isolated and not allowed to reside in a region where the Eusimulium concerned in the transmission prevail. Since the microfilariae do not disappear immediately following...