Word: tumor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. Dr. Albert Soiland, 73, radiologist and cancer fighter; of a heart attack; in Stavanger, Norway. Starting 63 years ago as a Norwegian immigrant, he made a rags-to-riches rise in medicine, founded two schools (American College of Radiology, Los Angeles Tumor Institute), dedicated his near-million-dollar life earnings to cancer research...
Sandra's trouble: embryonal nephroma or Wilms tumor (named for German Surgeon Marx Wilms, 1867-1918). The disease is an expanding growth of the kidney which rapidly fills the abdomen and hinders normal functions. It usually causes a relatively painless death within six months after diagnosis. The doctors, who might have removed Sandra's kidney if the condition had been discovered sooner, shook their heads. The medical men knew better than anyone else how often modern medicine, with all its touted knowledge and skill, has to stand back and accept defeat...
...amid all the quackery and superstition, two western doctors made great and lasting contributions to the science of medicine. In his office in Danville, Ky., Dr. Ephraim McDowell performed the first operation for ovarian tumor on a brave, unanesthetized woman who lived 31 years thereafter. In Mackinac, Mich., peering through a hole in the stomach wall of a half-breed Indian named Alexis St. Martin, Dr. William Beaumont made his momentous discoveries about the action of the gastric juices...
...stomach it, there was a wonderful medical-art show on view last week in Baltimore's Enoch Pratt Free Library. Its 162 meticulous, gruesome pictures represented the work of about half of the nation's 50 professional medical artists. There was a portrait of an 89-pound tumor shortly after removal, a thorax without any viscera, a woman being skin-grafted after removal of her breast...
...Then World War II cut the land of the blue volcanoes from its European markets, brought it more strongly into the U.S. political sphere of influence. For security reasons the U.S. made friends with the modern caciques, granted them big loans, including Lend-Lease arms. Inflation swelled like a tumor. But Lend-Lease generosity made Franklin Roosevelt so popular with the dictators that, when Wendell Willkie ran against him, a nephew of Carias Andino asked bewilderedly: "Why doesn't Roosevelt have him shot...