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...disease process may begin with a small stroke, or it may be caused by a tumor. Though it is seldom seen today, a particularly common tumor among peasants of the Middle Ages, who lived close to their herds, was tuberculoma. This was often caused by the bacilli of bovine tuberculosis-the same bacteria that made the ruff fashionable to hide the swellings of scrofula ("the king's evil"). Since Joan's right-side perception was affected, the tumor would be in the left hemisphere of her brain...
...ever at 79, Dr. Rous admitted last week: "I used to quake in the night for fear that I had made an error." One of his colleagues, he recalled, was so sure that cancer was an unfathomable mystery that he said: "That can't have been a tumor if you found the cause of it." Today no line of investigation into the origins of human cancer is being pressed more vigorously than that implicating viruses as at least partly responsible. Though he has never worked with human cancers, and was technically "retired" for age 14 years ago, Peyton Rous...
...they knew, was that cancer is not infectious. Therefore, no "infectious agent" could be involved in its origin. Then a young (31) researcher just starting in at Manhattan's Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research, went to work on a sick Plymouth Rock hen. He took material from a tumor on the bird's breast, ground it ultrafine to smash the very cells, filtered the stuff through silica so that not even a broken cell could pass, and injected the liquid into healthy chickens. They soon developed cancers of the same type (sarcoma) as the original...
...last year he came home with a pain in his chest. In an operation to remove a lung cancer, Big Bill's vocal cords were damaged, and the full, gentle voice was reduced to a whisper. Last May he went under the knife once more, for a brain tumor, and he never sang again...
...garment district, primed such innovations as shirtwaist dresses and dressmaker suits, thought U.S. women the world's best dressed, "despite the fact that once every so often I see a woman in a dress I've struggled over, carrying herself like a hod carrier"; of a brain tumor; in Manhattan...