Word: tumors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Nordic lay with ocular fraternity in Manhattan's Eye & Ear Hospital last week. The Nordic, one Bert Ferguson, had one glass eye. The Jew, one Charles E. Greenblatt, had a gauze-packed socket, into which a glass eye soon would be set. His extracted eye had had a tumor. His other eye was good. But Nordic Ferguson's other eye was bad. It bore a cataract, an opaque thickening of the cornea that prevented light images going through his pupil and striking upon his retina. So hopeless was his case that he had become an inmate of Manhattan...
Sixteen years of experimentation at the Rockefeller Institute substantiate this theory. Early in 1912 Dr. Murphy and his colleague Dr. Francis Peyton Rous produced tumors in young healthy chickens. From these tumors they made extracts; inoculated more healthy chicks; produced more tumors. Always the new tumor had all the characteristics of the tumor from which the extract was prepared. Extract from one species would grow only in the same, or occasionally in a closely related, species. This seemed scarcely the work of a microbe; much more closely did it resemble the activity of a ferment or enzyme like the bacteriophage...
Other curious cures have been reported from Russia; from Jugoslavia. They remain unsanctioned. To date medical authorities recognize only Xray, radium, the knife. Wise persons remember, on hearing spectacular sagas of carcinoma cures, that nature has a way of being her own healer. Just as the lumpy tumor arises, reason unknown; so it may occasionally be reabsorbed, reason unknown...
Last week in Boston not many miles from where his paternal ancestors disembarked from the Mayflower he met death following an operation for a tumor which had been removed 17 years ago and had regrown involving the bone of his skull. He was buried with full military honors at the Arlington National Cemetery alongside the graves of the "Rough Riders," heroic young fighters whom Theodore Roosevelt had asked him to command in the Cuban campaigns...
Compressed Living. Dr. Millard C. Marsh of Springville, N. Y., kept a batch of tumorous mice living in compressed air. Tumor growth was checked and they lived 20% longer than did healthy mice caged in fresh, open air. Humans would benefit likewise, said Dr. Marsh, if they could carry on all their activities in compression chambers...