Word: kidney
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week Dr. Samuel Lubash of Manhattan announced* another kind of internal sun-lamp wherewith he can penetrate the bladder and ureter into the kidney and treat tuberculosis anywhere along the drainage system...
...match head. This he attached to a copper wire covered by a silk-wound ureteral catheter and attachable to a high frequency apparatus. Last week was too early to show cures in his work, but he had reason to believe that healing light would work as well in a kidney as anywhere else...
...Ross Roach, he had stopped all but nine of 137 shots in five games. To defend their championship the Maple Leafs had a crack team of seasoned players. Charlie Conacher, 23-year-old forward, seemed to have ended his career three years ago when he had to have a kidney removed. He plays in a leather harness which has not prevented him from developing the hardest shot in hockey, surpassing his famed brother Lionel, defense player for the Montreal Maroons. Lean, morose goalie for the Maple Leafs is Lome Chabot, who has worn the same pair of lucky trousers...
...contagious diseases. All last year only one physician died of infantile paralysis, scarlet fever, anthrax, parrot fever, or undulant fever. Of 2,952 U. S. doctors who died during the year (average age: 63.8-) heart disease killed 1,065, cerebralhemorrhage 365, pneumonia 312, hardening of the arteries 252, kidney ailments 237, cancer 236, blood poisoning 45, influenza 36. Sixty-four committed suicide (most by shooting, only five by poisoning); 139 were killed accidentally (two took overdoses of medicine; one caught his head in a drawer of a wardrobe trunk; one overbaked himself in an electric cabinet...
Died. Malcolm Ross McAdoo. 67, younger brother of Democrat William Gibbs McAdoo; of acute kidney trouble; in Baltimore. A political independent, he had bolted both parties, scorned the party regularity of Brother William whom he claimed he "could always lick." He was engaged in designing a sea-level ship canal across Florida...