Word: humber
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...those tanks simulated atmospheric conditions on tops of mountains four to five miles high. His hesitancy in making the report was due to: 1) ordinary scientific cautiousness; 2) the misinterpretation of the experimental adrenal cortex cancer treatment being tried out by Drs. Walter Bernard Coffey and John Davis Humber in San Francisco (TIME, March 24). Previous experimenters have retarded growth of cancer cells by low tension oxygen treatment. Dr. Sundstroem declared his were the first "cures" by this means. In it one great danger exists. Minute care must be taken in reducing the atmospheric pressure in the tanks very slowly...
Sufferers from cancer have been mortgaging their homes, impoverishing themselves to get funds to carry them to San Francisco to be treated by Drs. Walter Bernard Coffey and John Davis Humber at their Southern Pacific General Hospital Clinic. Over the protest of Drs. Coffey & Humber. newspapers have heralded as a cure what the Doctors refer to as "encouraging experiment" (TIME, Feb. 24). Deluded into believing that sure, swift relief could be given them, some 1,500 people have rushed to the Clinic, more than could possibly be handled...
Last week in Manhattan, at the annual meeting of the American Association for Cancer Research, a report on the Clinic re-echoing the warnings of Drs. Coffey & Humber was read by Dr. Burton Thorn Simpson, who spent three weeks there observing. Said he: "I did not observe that this treatment [injection of an extract derived from the cortex of the adrenal glands] had any beneficial result and I would certainly advise against any patient going there in hope of a cure. ... A cancer cure . . . must cause cancer to disappear ... for at least five years. The Coffey treatment has been applied...
Chief among the medical men summoned by California's Senator Hiram Johnson before the committee were Drs. Walter Bernard Coffey and John Davis Humber, cancer researchers at the Southern Pacific General Hospital, San Francisco. White-haired, horn-spectacled Dr. Coffey related his and his colleague's joint research, explained that their widely heralded "cancer cure" was "not a cure but an encouraging experiment." Dr. Coffey said that 1,506 cases, more than 1,300 them inoperable, had been treated with gratifying results. The Coffey-Humber extract, derived from the adrenal glands, which, when injected into a cancer sufferer...
...appointment of two Harvard men to a commission which will hasten to San Francisco to investigate the Coffee-Humber method of treating cancer by adrenal extract was announced on Saturday. R. B. Greenough '92, assistant professor of Surgery in the Medical School, and C. C. Little '10, will collaborate with the San Francisco doctors in their experiments with cancer sufferers...