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Physicist Lawrence and his brother, Physician John Hundale Lawrence, soon discovered that neutron rays directed at animals act with much greater force and selectivity than X-rays, are five times more lethal for tumor tissue than X-rays but in tumor-killing doses considerably easier on normal tissue...
From the time when Beery, fortified by gulps of gin from a water pail, cuts a tumor out of Lady Q's right forefoot, there is not much doubt about how Stablemates will end. However, before the climactic race, enough has happened to the chief personages involved to make any reasonably susceptible cinemaddict as worried as though he had a good-sized bet on the outcome. Good shot: Beery and Rooney pulling a harrow to pay for a night's lodging while Lady Q romps playfully in the next field...
...after the good old days, but grateful for modern medical advancement, Hertzler's main grievances are against neurotic female patients, most assistant surgeons, meddling parsons, quacks, lawyers (malpractice suits "are dependent on the presence of a lawyer in a state of malnutrition"), believers in mental healing. During a tumor operation, when a patient's friend stood by repeating "You think you see something, but there is nothing there," "Pop" held himself in till he finished, then slammed the gory ten-pound tumor on her feet...
Last week was a week of torment for a Chicago dentist and his wife. Dr. & Mrs. Herman Colan could not decide whether to have their newborn daughter's eyes taken out, or to let her die from the tumor which was blinding her and which, if not immediately stopped by surgery or X-rays, was sure to reach her brain. The infant's left eye first showed the growth when she was four weeks old. If surgeons had removed that eye at once, the child's right eye might have been saved. The distracted parents turned...
...American College of Surgeons, central registry for such facts, has records of 29,195 people who have recovered from cancer. Last week six of them organized a Cured Cancer Club, elected as president an aggressive oldster, Dr. Anna Mary Chipman Palmer, 81, of Milton, Mass., who had a breast tumor excised 18 years ago. Their slogan: "We will drive away the fear that keeps so many people from going to a physician in time to be saved...