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Word: serums (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Cancer is caused by absence in the human body of a serum which dissolves centres of infection. Therefore, extract this serum from animals and inject into humans...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Cancer | 4/21/1924 | See Source »

...then discovered that the serum which naturally prevents cancer is produced in a small gland in the neck, and that this gland becomes decreasingly active until, at 50, it often ceases to function. Therefore, stimulate this gland. But the gland cannot be sufficiently stimulated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Cancer | 4/21/1924 | See Source »

Finally a serum, artificially made, is discovered. Injection of this serum will give immunity from cancer. Use of the serum in connection with an operation will prevent a reappearance of the disease...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Cancer | 4/21/1924 | See Source »

...Benjamin is a glandular specialist and in 20% of his cases uses a serum from goats' glands. In the other 80%, however, the X-ray treatment is used. The majority of patients are school teachers and nurses who feel the need of renewed energy to carry on their work. In many cases hair which has turned gray is supplanted by hair of the original color...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Black Oxen? | 3/24/1924 | See Source »

...Schick test and serum continued to be used. The children were expected to recover fully...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Frozen Serum | 2/18/1924 | See Source »

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