Word: treatments
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Pooling & Perking. Dulles hoped that the stay at Jupiter Island in the warm Florida sunshine, with the cold war left behind him, would help him recover from effects of the heavy radiation treatment at Walter Reed, would also give doctors a chance to find out whether the radiation treatment had arrested the spread of his cancer. After he found the answers, he would decide whether to 1) carry on as Secretary of State, 2) resign as Secretary but carry on in perhaps the high-level, influential capacity of presidential adviser on foreign affairs, or 3) resign and retire. Last week...
...bone marrow is secreting abnormal cells, it might be possible to destroy the marrow deliberately with massive radiation, then replace it with healthy marrow. It has worked in mice and dogs, but the human system, far more, choosy, usually gets its antibody factory working again, and thus defeats treatment with injected "foreign" bone-marrow cells...
...didn't even cop second prize; but it has since taken its rightful place among the masterpieces of satire, rivalled only by some of the works of Moliere, Gilbert & Sullivan, and Shaw. It is particularly appropriate for the Cantabrigian community, for it is perhaps the most brilliant treatment ever given to the controversy over traditional vs. progressive education; arguments about "why Johnny can't read" are nothing...
...team of four researchers from the Harvard Medical School recently made a major contribution to medical knowledge of the treatment of leukemia and other malignant diseases. The research, conducted in both humans and animals, promises to eliminate one of the major deterrents to massive radiation treatment-destruction of the body's bone marrow...
...table and dumped their filleted flounder into the garbage can. Housewives who were saving it in the refrigerator got rid of it in a hurry. Hospital switchboards lit up and were jammed for hours. Emergency rooms filled fast. About 300 people who said they had eaten flounder got treatment: some were hypochondriacs, most were mild cases, a few were severely poisoned. As far as officials knew, there were no more deaths...