Word: lankenau
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...years ago Dr. Gregory Goodwin Pincus of Clark University. Worcester, Mass, fertilized rabbit eggs with chemicals, produced several healthy bunnies. Last week Dr. Stanley Philip Reimann, cancer expert of Philadelphia's Lankenau Hospital Research Institute, announced to the Pathological Society of Philadelphia that he had artificially fertilized a human egg cell...
...Pennsylvania women trooped to Philadelphia last week to be told that cancer is curable if detected early, to be urged to spread this word to other women. While these women were busy being told how to avoid death from cancer, Dr. Grace Medes, 49, of Philadelphia's Lankenau Hospital Research Institute wondered whether the strange sulfur sprees upon which she periodically goes will ever give her a cancer...
...extent that none can be detected in her blood or what she modestly euphemizes as "other fluids." On the fifth day she takes a half-teaspoonful of cystine, cysteine, d-1-methionine, l-methionine, cystine-disulfoxide, sulfonic acid or cysteic acid, the seven body sulfur compounds crystallized by Lankenau's Chemist Gerrit Toennies. For the next 24 to 36 hours Miss Medes remains alone and foodless in her laboratory taking samples of her blood every half-hour, other fluids whenever possible. The week-long experiment over, she then goes to her boarding house, a block away from her laboratory...
Died. Major Thomas Halbert Russell, 53, president of Staunton Military Academy, Staunton, Va.; when he flumped from a third-story window of Lankenau Hospital; in Philadelphia, Pa. Afflicted with anemia, toxemia and low blood pressure, he had been hospitalized for ten days...
Died, Dr. John B. Deaver, 76, since 1886 chief surgeon at Philadelphia's old-time German Hospital (now the Lankenau), Emeritus Professor of Surgery at University of Pennsylvania; of anemia; in Philadelphia. His specialty: appendectomy. One year he performed an average of six operations every weekday. He could manipulate his scalpel with both right and left hands. He was a surgeon's surgeon; he operated on more medical men than any other surgeon in the land. Once 160 physicians attended a dinner in his honor, given by men upon whom he had performed major operations...