Word: hodgkin
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Alan Lloyd Hodgkin, 49, research professor of Britain's Royal Society, who works at Cambridge, and Andrew Fielding Huxley,* 45, of London's University College, the wets, have worked together in detailed study of the giant nerve cells of squid...
...joined the company as a mill hand in 1919, caught the eye of Founder James Ford Bell and became his chief lieutenant, helping expand breakfast foods (Wheaties, Cheerios), push on into convenience foods (Betty Crocker cake mixes) and half a dozen other businesses from chemicals to electronics; of Hodgkin's disease; in Minneapolis...
...within the body, others close to the skin. The lymph nodes produce some of the white cells that help the body fight off invading bacteria. They are favorite sites for colonization by cancer cells, and the whole lymphatic system may fall victim to a cancerlike process. (Best-known example: Hodgkin's disease.) There may be miles of lymphatic ducts, but they are so fragile and elusive that nobody has measured them. Often buried in fat, they shrink to the vanishing point when not filled with fluid, and disappear at the gentlest touch of the anatomist's probe...
...food and air. ¶ Insurance against the costs of cancer care was offered in a simplified policy by New York's Standard Security Life Insurance Co., with maximum total benefits of $10,000 ($3,000 in any one year). Cancer is broadly defined to include leukemia and Hodgkin's disease. Main argument for a separate policy (since other forms of health insurance may offer as good coverage) : the belief that fear of the high costs of cancer care keeps many victims from their doctors until the disease is too advanced for effective treatment. ¶ Dishpan hands sometimes take...