Word: tumors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Seventeen years ago Dr. Gushing operated on a tumor of the brain. He had performed the same operation success fully many times. This patient died. Dr. Gushing was puzzled. Autopsy showed extraordinary cracks and ulcers of the stomach. Three times during subsequent years, among thousands of successful cerebrotomies, did the same fatal conjunction of gastric ulcers and diencephalic tumors occur. Was there causal relation ship? Dr. Gushing has decided affirmatively...
Three months ago Undersecretary of State Joseph Potter Cotton, No. i man in the Hoover sub-Cabinet, entered Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore for treat-ment of a nervous ailment. In January surgeons removed a tumor from his spine. Fortnight later a general toxemia developed. His right eye was cut out. A third operation opened his leg to relieve the infection. He failed to improve. One night last week, Secretary of State Stimson was informed that Mr. Cotton could not live much longer. He sped from Washington to Baltimore, spent a midnight half-hour at the bedside of his good...
Murphy's Agent. At the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research, Dr. James Bumgardner Murphy and three associates have found what they call an inhibiting agent in a particular kind of chicken tumor. They filtered some tumor material. Such filtrate generally creates a new tumor in a definite period of time. When Dr. Murphy washed the filtrate in several changes of water he found that the residue was much more active than the original filtrate. Plainly the wash water had carried away some cancer dampener, which might be used to cure the disease. What its exact nature is, or the mechanism...
Died. Dr. Richard Bishop Moore, 59, dean of science at Purdue University, one-time (1919?23) chief chemist and chief of the division of mineral technology of the U. S. Bureau of Mines, general manager (1923-26) of Door Co. of New York (engineers); of brain tumor and double pneumonia; in Manhattan. A pioneer experimenter in radioactivity, Dr. Moore was the first U. S. scientist to discover means of producing native radium; the first to produce helium gas in large quantities, reduce its cost (from $1,500 to 10 per cubic foot), demonstrate its superiority over inflammable hydrogen gas. From...
...that the adrenal (another name for suprarenal) cortex is essential for life, the medulla not. The cortex has some relation to the sex organs. Enlargement may occur with pseudohermaphroditism (the "man"' or 'woman" has the genitals of the apparently opposite sex). Enlargement may cause premature puberty. A tumor after puberty makes women hairy, their voices masculine. The normal cortex seems to control cellular growth throughout the body. Hence the experimental use of a blind extract to treat cancer (TIME, Feb. 24 et seq.}. The medulla secretes epinephrine, hormone which affects blood pressure. In some way it influences...