Word: tumorous
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...results were astonishing to both readers and editors. Every page was laid out in punchy, advertising style. Each issue bloomed with color printing. Weird symbols of internal organs caught the eye. Among the standing features: "Tumor Topics" and "Cancer Quiz." The Bulletin could say anything with enthusiasm. Inch-high type clarioned: "EVERY PERSON HAS A RECTUM . . . Any Doctor Can Examine It." An article on digital examination to detect cancer of the breast was briskly headed "Stop, Look and Feel," and decked with 17 drawings in color. The editors and artists even hit on a way to make a cover design...
Among his patients, reports New York Gynecologist Robert T. Frank in the current Journal of the American Medical Association, "a large number are fear-stricken and panicky . . . They may . have been told tactlessly by their physician that they have a tumor in the breast, ovary or womb which requires immediate operation. [They] may resist all attempts to convince them that the condition is harmless, nonmalignant and does not require operation...
Because the nonmalignant fibroid, or fibromyoma, of the uterus is by far the commonest tumor among women, says Dr. Frank, "the health, happiness and future morale of many a patient will rest on the tact, insight and kindliness with which the attending physician . . . enlightens her about [its] presence ... An incautious 'You have large fibroids . . . which must come out at once' may produce panic and ... in due time she will find an operator willing to mutilate her without valid indications." In the same issue of the Journal...
...chemical to be tested. After a week or so, a girl kills the mouse by crushing its fragile skull. Then she slits open its belly skin and measures the cancer, which is usually by this time a grey-pink, rounded mass as big as a thumbnail. If the tumor has disappeared or has not grown as much as expected, the chemical is listed as promising enough for further testing...
Then she turned to the deadly virus of Russian spring-and-summer encephalitis, injected it into the abdominal cavity of cancerous mice. In about two days the firm, round tumors turned into blobs of pus. All the cancer cells apparently died. But the virus then went on and attacked the nerves and brain. Four days later the mice, apparently cured of cancer, died of encephalitis. Nonetheless, the virus had shown a dramatic differential effect. It went first to the tumor and thrived there before attacking the brain...