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Dates: during 1930-1939
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From 1903 to the day of his death last October, Johns Hopkins' Dr. Joseph Colt Bloodgood. famed cancer pathologist, megaphoned to every human being with a mole upon his skin: "Beware of death-dealing black cancer! Watch that mole and, if it starts to grow, have it cut out before it is too late." Dr. Bloodgood believed with many another wise cancer specialist that it is worth scaring the wits out of 999 people in order to save the thousandth man from death by cancer...
...term mole refers to two separate kinds of growths in the body: 1) a soft, fleshy mass (Latin mola) in the womb, caused by an ovum which started to become a baby but failed; 2) a pigmented spot (Anglo-Saxon mael) in the skin. According to Dr. Affleck, Mole No. 2 "may occur anywhere on the surface of the body, in the mucous membranes of the upper and lower ends of the digestive tube, and in the eye." It may be covered with coarse hairs. In color it ranges from light brown to black. Color is due to a pigment...
...First manifestation of malignancy is the occurrence of numerous pigmented growths in the skin about the primary mole. This represents the most malignant form. The onset is followed shortly by widespread metastases and death from visceral involvement...
Last week Editor Morris Fishbein, who is particularly interested in purpura, published in his Journal of the American Medical Association two ways of treating that blood disease. The methods were equally inexplicable, equally poisonous. In purpura blood escapes from capillaries and collects under the skin or mucous membranes in spots which range in size from pinpoints to silver dollars, in color from flaming red to black & blue. Bruises cause transient purpuric blotches called ecchymoses. Typhus fever causes dotty purpura or petechiae. The kind of purpura which interested Dr. Fishbein last week was thrombocyto-penic purpura. Victims of this condition...
While working on the hull, oat millers have also discovered curious outlets for the groats in addition to breakfast food. Oats are good for the skin and tend to preserve other foods. Special oat flour is used in soap, cosmetics, facials, sunburn preparations. Potato chips and nuts dusted with oat flour are supposed to stay fresh longer. Lard containing 5% oat flour keeps better than pure lard. A small amount of oat flour in coffee preserves the aroma. Chief objection to oat flour is that the improvement in the quality of the treated food is not great enough to overcome...