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...Santa Barbara, Calif, last week, Mrs. Maude Louise Gilpatric, 52, wife of Author John Guy ("Mr. Glencannon") Gilpatric, found out from her doctor that she had a breast tumor. The Gilpatrics had been married for 30 years, and friends said they were an unusually devoted couple...
Author Gilpatric, whose long series of Saturday. Evening Post short stories about the walrus-mustached, Scotch-drinking Mr. Glencannon have entertained U.S. readers for more than two decades, learned from the doctor that the tumor was malignant. Then, police said, he got out a .32-caliber pistol, shot and killed her, then killed himself...
...your issue of April 10 you reported the announcement by Mrs. Rosalie Reynolds that she had found large amounts of hyaluronidase in malignant tumors from mice, whereupon it was suggested that the enzyme may be a factor in causing the "explosive growth of cancer cells." Since hyaluronidase is widely used in many hospitals, in some cases as a life-saving measure to increase the speed of absorption of nutritional solutions, anesthetics and antibiotics, I feel compelled to emphasize that intensive investigation during the last few years . . . has exonerated hyaluronidase, experimentally administered, as a promoter of cancer growth. It has been...
...third time in six months. He had been in hospitals seven times in the past nine weeks, and most of the time he had been in extreme pain, unable to sit up for more than a few hours. Last week, in a four-hour operation, a nonmalignant tumor in and around his spine was removed and with it, friends hoped, the real reason for his failure to recuperate from his operation last fall. But the 66-year-old Republican, who had voiced all that was best in international responsibility and generosity, was lost to the Senate for the rest...
Near starvation, her face twisted in pain, seven-year-old Maria was brought to San Salvador's Hospital Benjamin Bloom just in time. While her mother, a poor Indian woman, waited outside, the doctors made an examination. Then Chief Surgeon Carlos Chamorro operated, removed an orange-sized ovarian tumor from the child...