Word: tumors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rare); encephalitis following an attack of infectious disease, such as chickenpox, measles, whooping cough. Also of undetermined origin is the famed case of Chicago's Patricia Maguire, 31, who, drowsing for five and a half years, last week could not undergo a badly needed excision of an abdominal tumor because she suffers from inflammation of the veins of her legs...
When Composer George Gershwin crumpled in Hollywood last fortnight, doctors called it overwork. Last week, when he collapsed again they found a cystic tumor growing fast in his brain. Doctors at Hollywood's Cedars of Lebanon Hospital sent a hurry call to Dr. Walter Edward Dandy, great brain surgeon at Johns Hopkins. Gershwin sank so fast they had to operate before Dandy could get there. Next morning at 10:35 a. m., while his brother Ira watched over him, George Gershwin died. Serious musicians joined pluggers and crooners to mourn the 38-year-old composer who had made...
...otologist, Dr. Harold Grant Tobey of Boston made a cheerful point: "Deafness is not a common symptom of brain tumor...
...Pittsburgh lives a woman who had the entire right side of her brain removed on account of a tumor, Dr. Stuart N. Rowe of Pittsburgh told his fellow psychiatrists last week. Instead of dying or at least suffering paralysis of her left side, the woman survived and now competently directs a large household. Her memory is not so good as it once was, but she does | not lose the thread of magazine continued stories. All this is most unorthodox according to the hitherto accepted principles of brain physiology. But to Dr. Leland B. Alford of St. Louis, also...
...external application of short, penetrating rays, but even when several grams of the element are available, the intensity of radiation is so small that the distance between the patient and the applicator can not, with economy, be made sufficiently great to deliver an adequate does to a deep-seated tumor...