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Sandra's trouble: embryonal nephroma or Wilms tumor (named for German Surgeon Marx Wilms, 1867-1918). The disease is an expanding growth of the kidney which rapidly fills the abdomen and hinders normal functions. It usually causes a relatively painless death within six months after diagnosis. The doctors, who might have removed Sandra's kidney if the condition had been discovered sooner, shook their heads. The medical men knew better than anyone else how often modern medicine, with all its touted knowledge and skill, has to stand back and accept defeat...
...implications of this discovery are great, Leet emphasized. It will prove useful in modern mineral prospecting by the painless method of remote control, a vast improvement over the "pick, pan, and pray" system employed during the Yukon and 1849 gold rushes...
...Guthrie's statement that surgery has become painless "shocks one as a thundering lie ... but of course means only that the patient does not feel the touch of the surgeon's knife. . . ." (The pain comes after operations...
...nationalization of "The Old Lady of Threadneedle Street" was not painless, it was at least a well-anaesthetized operation. Said Bank Governor Lord Thomas Sivewright Catto, after reading the bill: "I have confidence in the skill and understanding of the surgeon [Chancellor of the Exchequer Hugh Dalton]. . . . He is well aware of the venerable age and the worldwide prestige of his patient...
This still left radio a studioful of George Fielding Eliots and H. V. Kal-tenborns, whose jobs were safe enough: radio intended to push out the smaller fry first, cut down on the number of news programs. Latest trend is to make the news painless. Mutual now has Marjorie and Royal Arch Gunnison, the husband-&-wife team who covered the Orient for the Christian Science Monitor, to chitchat the news on a show called Mr. & Mrs. Reporter (1 p.m., E.W.T.). ABC signed up the aging wonder boy Orson Welles. who wants to talk about Shirer's kind of subjects...