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...considered a standard all over the world (eleven editions since 1927), himself a leader in the battle against arthritis, who created one of the first U.S. arthritis clinics in 1922, developed the agglutination test, and was among the first to treat the disease with gold salts; of a brain tumor; in Manhattan...
...TUMORS. A noncancerous but far from benign tumor is the angiofibroma, which develops in the nasal passages and equips itself with a huge blood supply. When the tumor is removed by ordinary surgery, patients lose an average three pints of blood; some have lost as much as eight, and died on the operating table. At the University of Michigan, Dr. Walter Work and Dr. Mansfield F. W. Smith pioneered a cryo-surgical technique for the removal of angiofibromas with negligible bleeding...
...sharp is the line of demarcation between the deeply frozen tumor and adjacent warm tissue that the mass can be cleanly removed. Seven patients treated by this technique have also been spared the discomfort of repeated nasal packings, which usually followed old-style surgery...
...Arms. Early this year, Miss Happer, a Christian Scientist, began to complain of stomach pains; by March she had lost 37 Ibs. Finally, despite the tenets of her faith, she was persuaded to see a doctor, who insisted that she enter a hospital for further tests of an abdominal tumor...
...were 1-2-despite the fact that last year's two-year-old champion had raced only once since last October, had never run around two turns, or gone the 1½-mile distance of the Wood. He had been laid up all winter with painful "splints," tumor-like growths on his shinbones. Nonetheless, he had won six straight stakes and $392,996, and odds makers already had installed him as the 8-5 favorite to win the Kentucky Derby May 1. Nobody paid much attention to Isador Bieber's Flag Raiser (odds: 7-1), a colt that...