Word: tumorous
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Ludwik Gross of the Pasteur Institute in Paris made small, weak doses of finely minced sarcoma tissue, injected them not beneath but in the skins of mice. In most of the animals metastases (cancer colonizations elsewhere in the body) took place and death followed. But in 10% the skin tumor caused by the injection dried up and disappeared and thereafter the mice were immune to that type of sarcoma. The percentage of tumor disappearances and subsequent immunities was doubled by barely pricking the freshly shaved skin with a needle which had been dipped in the cancer emulsion...
Even better results were obtained with rabbit carcinoma. When the rabbits were inoculated in the skin, the resulting tumors invariably disappeared and the animal was thereafter immune. It was evident that in the rabbit's blood some antibody had been generated which dried up the skin tumor and provided lasting protection. Similar experiments with chickens, however, failed...
...light on the failure with chickens was cast by Dr. William Ewart Gye, director of Britain's Imperial Cancer Research Fund, who found that even in the blood of chickens with growing cancers there may be antibodies in amounts detectable by chemical means. "A hen may carry a tumor," he wrote, "and have at the same time more than enough of the immune body in its circulating fluids to neutralize the whole of the virus in its tumor, and the tumor nevertheless continues to grow." The reason appeared to be that the cancer virus takes refuge inside the body...
Died. Robert Worth Bingham, 66, sportsman, lawyer, publisher, since 1933 U. S. Ambassador to the Court of St. James; following a diagnostic operation which disclosed "abdominal Hodgkins disease," probably some form of infection with the appearance of tumor, whose rarity baffled Johns Hopkins' surgeons, whose seriousness surprised his friends; in Baltimore. His second marriage, in 1916, was to the widow of Standard Oil's late great Henry M. Flagler. She died eight months after marrying Mr. Bingham, left him $5,000,000. Next year he purchased the Louisville Courier-Journal and Times, became famed...
...long publicized victim of sleeping sickness, Patricia Maguire (TIME, Dec. 2, 1935, et ante), died last week. In a trice pathologists of Northwestern University medical school took out: 1) her lungs, to verify the pneumonia which was the immediate cause of her death; 2) an ovary to examine the tumor which mysteriously developed a few weeks ago, caused her to waste away, reduced her resistance to the pneumonia; and 3) her strange, ineffective brain. Then she was buried with a fresh corsage of gardenias and the crystal necklace which her constant fiance, a jewelry salesman named James Burns, gave...