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...general practitioners can recognize the early signs of cancer when they see them. But they have been taught - as the Women's Field Army is out to teach women - to suspect the possibilities of cancer when a sore refuses to heal; when a lump forms in any part of the body, particularly the breast; when the uterus bleeds persistently or irregularly...
...arsenic content, Lewisite may poison the blisters it produces. Author Prentiss declares that 30 drops of Lewisite splashed on a man's skin would be fatal. It is more volatile and less persistent than mustard gas, however, and if no arsenic poison sets in, its wounds heal more quickly. Author Prentiss believes that under favorable" conditions Lewisite would prove superior to mustard. British experts disagree with him. Lewisite is certain to get a thorough tryout in any future war between major powers...
Captain Tom Healey was out of the 1940 lineup with a leg injury, which should heal in time for the Yale game, and his absence was felt keenly in the line...
Before Dr. Hart rigged up his germ killing light barrage, one out of 25 patients on whose chests he operated used to die from infections. No infections developed after he began using the barrage. Without the barrage incisions required an average of 21 days to heal. With the barrage the average fell to nine days. Besides, "improvement in the entire convalescence was good. There was less postoperative pain...
...Enlargement of the primary mole with subsequent ulceration that may heal incompletely and weep or bleed intermittently. This may lead the patient to consult a physician, who excises the lesion with a good margin of healthy tissue. The wound heals and the patient may remain well for a number of years. . . . Subsequently, however, recurrence takes place. Following this there is a rapid downhill course with widespread distant metastases [secondary cancers in other parts of the body...