Word: tumorous
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Great Lie (Warner Bros.). For three years and three pictures Bette Davis and George Brent have tried to get together. In Jezebel Brent died dueling. In Dark Victory a brain tumor dispatched Miss Davis. Then it was Brent's turn again: he failed to live through The Old Maid. In The Great Lie they finally make it. The end leaves them in each other's arms, lark-happy...
...Pauline Stemmer, 45-year-old housewife of North Brunswick Township, N. J., felt sick and dizzy. She went to see Dr. William Klein, well-known radiologist of New Brunswick. He found a walnut-sized tumor in her uterus, advised her to have it removed by Xray. She went to St. Peter's General Hospital, of which Dr. Klein was president, and had three irradiations...
...Stemmer, a faithful Catholic who had borne five children, believed that her child-bearing days were over: her youngest was 17, she herself was nearing 50. Three and a half months after her first visit, Dr. Klein discovered that in addition to suffering from a tumor, his patient was several months pregnant. A month later, Mrs. Stemmer gave birth to a premature (three months) baby boy, weighing a little over a pound. The child was a hopeless idiot, deaf and blind...
Neurologists still remember Sir Henry's slashed arm. For pain is an important index in the diagnosis of brain and nerve injuries. A neurologist searching for a brain tumor in a patient with a weak, dragging left leg, for example, carefully pricks him with a pin to see where and how much he retains his sensation of pain. If the skin in a limited area is dulled, the neurologist knows that only a surface nerve is injured. If the patient is analgesic over a wide area, several nerves or even part of his brain may be damaged. By carefully...
After the tumor peeled off, the patient was troubled with a new growth the size of "a large lima bean." When the doctors injected into it an arsenic compound, the lump disappeared in a few days. The patient lived "free from tumor" for two years, finally died of heart failure...