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...lucky few can have gland and cancer completely removed. But all that can be done for most patients is to try to make them comfortable and prolong their lives by 1) operations, X-ray or radium treatments; 2) morphine and other pain-killing drugs...
...over. Many doctors are castration zealots. Others, like Dr. Kretschmer, are dead set against it. Drs. Herger and Sauer take the middle ground: they do not invariably castrate all prostatic-cancer patients, but recommend castration 1) for patients who do not respond to female sex hormones, 2) to prolong and ease the lives of men whose cancers have become widespread...
...exhibition. Unlike the dingy labyrinths of Houghton's senior partner, the stacks are bright with fluorescent lighting that penetrates even to the bottom shelf, but only members of the staff are allowed to appreciate them. The light and humidity of the entire building are so regulated as to prolong the life of the manuscripts
...production was down 20% since 1942; that no attempt has been made to repair the damage done to a large number of high-priority targets in Germany by the Allied aerial pounding. German stocks & bonds, even on the regimented market, were in acute decline. Food was just sufficient to prolong life and sustain work; the clothing ration for civilians was completely suspended on Aug. 1; the coal ration this year will be 70% of the 1941 allowance-and in that winter city-dwellers wore overcoats in their homes and there was hot water just one day each week...
Full responsibility for these defeats rests with Hitler. . . . Never has a foreign foe hurled us Germans into such a gulf of disasters as has Hitler. The facts implacably show that the war is lost. Germany can prolong the war for a while at the price of unheard-of sacrifices and deprivations. The continuation of a hopeless war, however, would be tantamount to the nation's doom...