Word: tumorous
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...soon as the victim of brain tumor breathed his last, they cut him open, slit out one of his healthy adrenal glands. Then they gave the dying woman a local anesthetic, grafted the gland in her wasted abdominal muscles, nursed her along with synthetic hormones till the graft took. Within a week the gland was functioning and the woman was well enough to leave the hospital...
...room near by lay another patient, dying of brain tumor. Both patients belonged to the same blood group. The sick woman's doctors, F. Katz and Fritz Mainzer, decided on a ghoulish experiment...
...Brain Tumor. Last winter, in the hospital, Dr. Brickley watched a woman who lay dying of a brain tumor. An electrocardiograph and electroencephalograph were attached to her heart and brain to record their electrical waves. First the waves on the left side of her brain stopped. Ten minutes later, the waves on the right side stopped. For ten further minutes, the heart waves kept on. When the heart stopped, the doctors declared the woman dead. But five minutes later, with no stimulation or drugs, the heart started to beat again, continued throbbing for five minutes. According to Dr. Brickley, this...
Conductor Klemperer, able musician but a Jew, was ousted from the Berlin State Opera in 1933, became leader of the Los Angeles Philharmonic. Two autumns ago he was given a leave of absence after undergoing a brain tumor operation, which left him partly paralyzed and shambling-gaited. Last autumn he resigned. Soon he found another orchestra over which to wave his enormous, expressive hands: the New York City Symphony (WPA). He quit this job in January, after a row over whether to play Wagner's Siegfried Idyll in its original 15-instrument version (as he wished), or with...
...Rutherford gave the patient a careful examination. She was not pregnant. She had no tumor. He wanted to find out what caused the huge swelling, but "she received the diagnosis of spurious pregnancy with contempt," and marched off to consult another physician...