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Quacks. "Recently the wide use of physical therapeutic methods by a group of more or less illiterate healers has unfortunately brought the problem into prominence again. The devotees of these cults frequently massage tumors in order to drive the lump away. In this they are often too successful. Patients now come into our hospitals with extraordinary distribution of tumor cells following such massage and manipulation. The victims are practically all of them beyond help, owing to the extensive distribution about the body of the embolic particles."-Francis Carter Wood of Manhattan...
...expected to look amazed; to say "By jingo" in his slow, thick voice. He wanted to please the captain; he must keep on being surprised. . . . Perhaps these men with pencils would be surprised if they saw a great island covered with seals like flies on a lump of sugar. Perhaps they would get stuck if they had to walk for five days without food through a world of blue ice lighted by stars as big as melons. Perhaps they would shake, as he was shaking now, if they saw cold fire creep across heaven and throw, with a noise like...
...Strikers are always supposed to win. The children dearly love violence. Said a boy of ten years: "I nearly got arrested twice. Gee, I gave the Cossacks a lot of trouble. I wish they would arrest me. My mother threw a rock at a Cossack and raised a lump on his head. Gee, I laughed! I'd like to stab a Cossack!" Albert Weisbord. Last week a threat signed by the "Black Hand Society" was sent to "Albert -Communist." It said that he must leave Passaic within 48 hours or his headquarters would be bombed and he would find...
...Joshua in his later period (he was eight years older than Romney) would not speak of him by name. He said, "The Man in Cavendish Square. . . ." Romney never retaliated by branding Reynolds as "The Man in St. Martin's Lane," "The Dauber in Great Newport Street," or "The Lump in Leicester Square," although the latter made residence, at one time or another, in all these thoroughfares. Romney never retaliated at all, for, to the end of his life, Reynolds frightened him. In the first place, Romney had been born behind the vulgar door of trade. His father...
Charlatanry. Although cancer is an exceedingly serious disease with a stupendous death rate, yet if it is discovered in its very early stages, it can be cured, at least death prevented, in the great majority of cases. Any suspicious lump should be called to the physician's attention at once. He has authentic knowledge of what can be done by medicaments, surgery, xray, radium, colloidal lead (TIME...