Word: stammerers
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...woman with an enormous cancer of the cheek walked into the office of Dr. Emanuel Louis Stammer of Queens, N.Y. The woman said she had been given many X-ray and radium treatments at Queens General Hospital; none of them seemed to do any good...
...Stammer remembered a "cancer salve" that another patient had given him. He said he had been informed that it contained zinc sulfate, galanga (a Chinese spice), bloodroot and ordinary lanolin. Dr. Stammer, no cancer specialist, had not analyzed the salve. He did not know what effect it would have, but he tried it out on himself to make sure it was harmless. Since her cancer seemed incurable, the patient agreed to give the salve a chance...
...smeared the paste on her face every three hours for several months. After a while the tumor disappeared. Although he was surprised at the results, Dr. Stammer never published any articles on the strange case, never claimed that he had a cancer cure. But the story got around to the New York State Board of Regents. They revoked his license for one year. Under State law, a doctor may not undertake "to cure or treat a disease by a secret medicine." Dr. Stammer's salve was classified as "secret" because he had not analyzed...
During the time Dr. Stammer was not allowed to practice he lost many of his patients. The salve that apparently cured the patient had ruined the doctor...
...Appellate Division of the New York State Supreme Court gave him back his license again a month before his year was up. But last week the Regents filed notice of intention to appeal to a higher court. Dr. Stammer's salve, said the Regents' consulting scientists, was known to be entirely ineffectual (if it really contained the ingredients he thought it did). The cure, they claimed, was either: 1) a delayed reaction from the patient's early X-ray and radium treatments, or 2) a spontaneous regression...