Word: penns
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...start tearing down the 250-year-old landmark and bulldozers will begin digging basements for the 77 new dwellings that will rise up on the farm. By next spring there will be nothing left of the Shallcross-Roberts farm but the ornate original deed bearing the bold signature William Penn...
...test got its start ten years ago when Dr. Harry S. Penn of the University of California at Los Angeles extracted a substance from the liver of victims killed by cancer. The substance usually had no effect on blood samples from healthy persons, but it left a precipitate in samples from patients with cancer or some other diseases. The biggest trouble was that the liver fractions Dr. Penn obtained were too variable, and other medical men could not duplicate his results. Then a team of U.C.L.A. researchers joined Dr. Penn, broadened the attack and succeeded in making from bile acid...
...Among the common noncancerous conditions that also cause a Penn test to show up positive are active rheumatoid arthritis, tuberculosis, cirrhosis of the liver, fever, pregnancy and hormone treatments...
...great virtues of the Penn test are its simplicity and speed. Any competent doctor or technician can be trained in a couple of weeks to perform it accurately...
Made ultracautious by previous fiascos, Drs. Penn and Dowdy are not even calling their procedure a "cancer test," and they insist that it should be used only under strict hospital or clinic conditions and along with other procedures. But, clearly, they hope it will prove its worth as soon as the bugs can be worked...