Search Details

Word: tumors (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

...Tests indicate that the diagnostician can be more certain than ever before of recognizing a cancer or benign tumor in its early stage," said Inventor Simjian. "Another very important point is that for the first time it becomes possible to illuminate blood vessels." Among other photographic devices invented by Mr. Simjian are a fogged silver screen for projecting microscopic photographs, a self-focusing camera, an automatic developing tank, a system of mirrors and a camera with which a subject can photograph any desired aspect of his face, and a set of mirrors for dress and hat shops inside which...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Colored X-Rays | 7/9/1934 | See Source »

...General Hospital of Kingston, Out., a 115-lb., 41-yr.-old woman had a 55-lb. tumor removed. Weighing 60 Ib. she may recover...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Fashion in Funerals | 7/2/1934 | See Source »

...Tumor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Fashion in Funerals | 7/2/1934 | See Source »

...Wisconsin Professor William Ellery Leonard, 58, poet, author (Two Lives, The Locomotive God); in Madison, Wis. Died. Charles ("Chuck") Gardiner, 29, star goaltender for the Chicago Black Hawks hockey team, three times winner of the Georges Vezina trophy for the leading goaltender of the National League; of a tumor of the brain; in Winnipeg...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jun. 25, 1934 | 6/25/1934 | See Source »

...furiously. Acute cases die within three months whereas the chronic forms last from six months to four or five years. Sunlight, x-ray treatments, arsenic dosage may prolong the leucemic's life. Cause of the disease is undetermined. Some physicians think that it is the result of a tumor in the marrow. Leucemia is by no means rare. During 1932 it took 2,794 lives in the U. S. That was more than the deaths from scarlet fever, erysipelas or any form of tuberculosis, except pulmonary. More than half of 1932's leucemia victims were past...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Leucemia | 5/21/1934 | See Source »

Previous | 277 | 278 | 279 | 280 | 281 | 282 | 283 | 284 | 285 | 286 | 287 | 288 | 289 | 290 | 291 | 292 | 293 | 294 | 295 | 296 | 297 | Next