Word: skins
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...word nudism does not appear in my paper. I know nothing about nudism. Yet there is a modern tendency to bold and repeated exposure of the body to wind, and especially to sunlight, which, carried to excess, produces some cancers of the skin directly and causes chronic changes in the skin of many subjects which eventually lead to cancer of the skin. . . . Every physician knows that farmers and seamen are especially prone to develop skin cancer...
Thesis of his Madrid address, explained Dr. Ewing, was that laymen and physicians are thinking too much about curing cancer, not enough about preventing it. Only 35% of cancer cases (skin, lip, mouth, breast, uterus) are readily curable. The rest are internal, inaccessible, difficult to treat. Despite advances in public education and curative and diagnostic technique, cancer mortality is nowhere decreasing...
Check. In Cambridge. Mass, last week Dr. James B. Murphy (Rockefeller Institute) told the National Academy of Sciences how he had concentrated a mysterious substance from rapidly-growing tissue-placenta and embryo skin-of rabbits and mice, shot it into other rabbits and mice suffering from one form of cancer (carcinoma). In most cases the cancerous growth was arrested. A substance concentrated from chicken tumors checked another type of cancer (sarcoma). The inhibitors have not been tried on cancerous human beings...
Affairs have been so long in a state of crisis in Austria that the high tension is assuming normality. Herr Dollfuss is still ruling by the skin of his excellently white teeth, the Nazis and Heimwehr are making a great deal of noise and suffering a wild persecution, and the Socialists are biding their time, suspicious of both parties, with a general strike trump up their ragged sleeves in case of emergency. The Chancellor has ordered gallows to be erected for public punishment; mass demonstrations have been outlawed; the opposition press is now effectively muzzled. One thing which this situation...
...ultraconservative scientist, was made the subject of glaring U. S. headlines last week for a speech he made in Madrid. To the Inter national Cancer Congress there he merely said: "Sunlight is one of the greatest causes of cancer. Even trips to the beach often result in skin cancer." The headline transmutation of Professor Swing's qualified statement became positive: "SAYS NUDISM BREEDS CANCER...