Word: tumors
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...left) side of the brain. It may have been damaged by a stroke, or by hardening of the cerebral arteries. In such cases, nothing can be done. But almost as often, Dr. Suter found in a series of 20 patients, the forgetting of names is caused by a tumor in this Association area of the brain...
...traces the double of Richard Button, as Rachel's relative, while he wenders whether her husband died of a tumor Rachel's questionable herb brew, is Olivia de Harviland, as the gracious Rachel, gauntly or gniless? Sine the anther won't reveal the answer and the actress seems as puzzled as the audience, the picture's ending is annoying rather than mysterious...
...Havilland) a murderess who killed her former husband? And is she now slowly doing away with her lover (Richard Burton) by slipping laburnum seeds into his tea? Or is Rachel only misunderstood-a gracious, generous "woman of impulse ... of strong feeling" whose husband died of a hereditary brain tumor? This mystery is slickly served up with all the full flavorings of romance, tragedy, revenge, intrigue and suspense. Bells clang in the distance, the surf beats on the misty Cornish coast, shadows loom in moss-covered castles. Most of the characters are moody, tormented people who indulge in such eccentricities...
...either sex, undetected adrenal tumors usually kill the victim. The best remedy is surgery to remove the tumor. This restores the normal balance for the patient's sex. For overactive adrenals with no tumor, small doses of cortisone now do the trick...
...girl still in the womb, it brings on outward physical changes and makes her look like a boy. In a few years she will have a deep voice and may start to grow a beard. If the trouble comes later in childhood (perhaps as the result of an adrenal tumor), most of the changes will be superficial-flat chest, narrow hips, deep voice and hirsutism. In a boy, the effect is to produce excessive virility, commonly shown in sexual precocity and premature growth of body hair...