Word: tumors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Enlargement of the prostate by chronic inflammation is a common ailment of elderly men. It is probably not a tumor process. Although it makes the victims uneasy and uncomfortable, it is rarely painful. Authorities estimate that one of three males over 60, suffers from prostatic hypertrophy. Gonorrhea in early manhood is a frequent, but by no means the sole cause.* The prostate gland nestles between the male bladder and rectum. Anatomically it corresponds to the womb. Normally it has the shape of a large chestnut 1¼ to 1½ in. wide by 1 to 1¾ in. long...
...Royer, 35, of Manchester, N. J., visited the grave, went home and died of a tumor...
Died. Dr. Edward Seitz Shumaker, 62, superintendent of the Indiana Anti-Saloon League; at Indianapolis; of a malignant tumor. Since 1907 he had given Indiana Prohibitionists many a signal victory. For disparaging statements made in his annual report to trustees of the Indiana League, concerning the Indiana Supreme Court's attitude in dealing with violators of the 18th Amendment, he was sentenced to two months' imprisonment, was later pardoned by onetime (1925-28) Governor Ed Jackson. In 1929 he was resentenced, served 53 days at the penal farm. Happy was he when, in 1925, the legislature passed...
...rays sterilized them (now they protect themselves by aprons of rubber impregnated with lead), they have been chary of X-raying women who might be gravid. It is not always certain that a woman is pregnant. She may be bloated through hysteria or, more usually, have a benign tumor or a cancer. X-rays can help in the diagnosis. X-rays can also destroy the tumor, or the fetus. Radium is also therapeutically destructive. Just what effect radium, or X-rays in their various doses have on the growing fetus has been an uncertainty among doctors. Few have experimented...
Cancer. Connective tissue cells of connective tissue cancers in animals found by Alexis Carrel to be solely responsible for this type of malignant tumors. Killing tumor cells by X-rays or radium rays found by Charles Packard to depend upon the energy set free in the individual cell (which causes the cell's death); rather than upon the wave length of radiations. Small doses over a long period kill some types of cancer cells and do not hurt healthy cells. Ultraviolet rays increased the effect of cancer-causing, irritating substances...