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Word: tumors (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...With eyes closed she could not tell where her left hand was, or her left foot. On the left side she was insensitive to pain, heat, vibration. These left-hand symptoms indicated trouble on the right side of the brain, since the control lines are laterally crossed. Diagnosis: brain tumor. Dr. William James Gardner of Cleveland opened her skull, cut out the right cerebral hemisphere-i.e., half her brain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Half a Brain | 9/7/1936 | See Source »

Four years after the operation she tripped, fell 20 ft. down a stairway. Soon she grew apathetic, dullwitted, unable to feed herself. A sample of fluid from her spine showed traces of blood. Her doctors concluded that a blood-filled tumor had developed on the outer layer of the brain. The skull was trephined, clotted blood removed from the left side of the cranial cavity, bloody spinal fluid from the right. Later, the patient seemed like a person with no brain at all. Bedridden, apathetic, twitching spasmodically, she died...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Half a Brain | 9/7/1936 | See Source »

...ordinary hemorrhage caused her death? Or had the fall stimulated a new growth of the old tumor? An autopsy would have settled the question. Despite the most fervent pleas, the woman's family refused to permit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Half a Brain | 9/7/1936 | See Source »

Nearly 1,000 Negro physicians, surgeons and dentists assembled last week in Philadelphia for the 42nd annual convention of the National Medical Association. As a symbol of interracial fraternity, Dr. Peter Marshall Murray, 46, gynecologist of New York City's Harlem Hospital, removed a multiple fibroid tumor from a patient in Philadelphia General Hospital, first piece of surgery ever performed by a Negro practitioner in that white hospital's long history...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Black in White | 8/31/1936 | See Source »

...woman into whom Dr. Jacobi injected the phenomenal double dose of typhous nitrate died four days after the treatment. But: "The tumor nodule was completely necrotic and virtually replaced by a hemorrhagic effusion," suggesting that, had she been treated earlier, she might have recovered...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Cancer Experiment | 4/20/1936 | See Source »

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