Word: tumors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Before ringing off, Mr. Jewett denied the tumor that Miss Braggiotti had became engaged to a former super of hers during the summer. "Maybe its one of the others," he said, 'but not my 'Salome...
Quacks. "Recently the wide use of physical therapeutic methods by a group of more or less illiterate healers has unfortunately brought the problem into prominence again. The devotees of these cults frequently massage tumors in order to drive the lump away. In this they are often too successful. Patients now come into our hospitals with extraordinary distribution of tumor cells following such massage and manipulation. The victims are practically all of them beyond help, owing to the extensive distribution about the body of the embolic particles."-Francis Carter Wood of Manhattan...
...Washington, Senator Willis of Ohio. Mr. Wheeler was excused then to be called back later. What had already occurred, however, though not sensational, was enough to arouse a storm. The New York Daily News, gumchewers' sheetlet exclaimed (of Wheeler's League): ". . . This incubus on American liberty, this tumor of religion perverted to bigotry and tyranny, must be cut out of the body politic." In Congress Senator Willis exclaimed: "I am not now and never have been on the payroll of the Anti-Saloon League." The Representatives excepting Mr. Barkley defended their action. Mr. Upshaw ejaculated...
Definition. Cancer is one of three types of tumor growing in the epithelium, that is, the cellular tissue which covers the body's free-surfaces, and lines tubes and cavities. One of these three types grows in finger-like processes or ridges. It is called papilloma and is benign. Also benign is adenoma, which lines gland-like depressions or cavities in the tissue structure. Under certain conditions papilloma and adenoma may infiltrate into healthy tissues and sometimes displace them. Here they resemble in effect the third epithelial tumor type-carcinoma, or cancer...
...succedaneum, the deep bruising of the scalp layer immediately next to the bony skull? Probably not. Inflammation or abscess of the scalp? No. There were no signs of erysipelas, wounds, boils, suppurating sweat glands, and very little likelihood of any decay of a bone in the skull. Encephalocele, a tumor formed by the sticking out through the soft infantile skull of the membranes of the brain, with brain matter and cerebrospinal fluid? No. This bump was too firm. Meningocele, a tumor containing the meninges of the brain and spinal fluid? Probably not, because a meningocele usually protrudes through an unossified...