Word: physicians
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...tissue) stop their growth at a primitive, atavistic stage. Such primitive cells may lie dormant while the blood is able to counteract the virus. But eventually the virus predominates in the blood and the primitive cells effloresce into cancer. (Propounded two years ago by Dr. Emilian O. Houda, Bohemian physician of Tacoma, Wash. Dr. Houda, in the current issue of Cancer indignantly asserts that Gye and Barnard of London, who have recently set forth a somewhat similar theory, have not given him due recognition for his prior work...
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...
...lungs the constant symptoms seem to be: pain, dyspnea, cough, weakness, loss of weight, cachexia, fever, anorexia. Before deciding that his patient has cancer, the careful doctor, from his store of knowledge and experience, which no laymen need doubt or seek to supplement, eliminates all other possibilities. However, the physician keeps a possible secondary lung involvement ever in mind. A skilled radiographer should also be called in before final decision. ("Primary Cancer of the Lungs," by John A. Lichty, F. R. Wright and E. A. Baumgartner of the Clifton Springs Sanitarium and Clinic, Clifton Springs...
...Invented by a French doctor, Antoine Louis, and originally called the Louisette. Later it was named for another French physician, Dr. Guillotin, who proposed its use to the French Constituent Assembly...
...Prince has long been known as one of Boston's leading physicians. He was graduated from the Harvard Medical School in 1879, and has been engaged in the practice of medicine in Boston since that time. He has specialized in nervous diseases and nervous psychology, having been the physician for nervous diseases at the Boston City Hospital for a period of 30 years, a lecturer on abnormal psychology at the University of California during the year 1910, and the author of several works on the nervous system and its psychology. One of the best known of these is "Dissociation...