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Chronic irritation always seems to be the immediate cause of cancer whether the victim is genetically vulnerable or not. The irritation may be mechanical (ill-fitting dentures), physical (pipe smokers' lips), chemical (tar roofers' hands), digestive (caused by bile acids), endocrine (caused by sex hormones). Said Dr. James Bumgardner Murphy of Manhattan...
...rate of cure is comparatively high for cancers of the skin, breast, uterus. From those sites the surgeon usually can excise the offensive tumor or the radiologist can shrivel it with x-ray or radium. The great difficulty with cancers of internal organs is that they seldom warn the victim of their presence until it is too late to get rid of them. Nonetheless, surgeons can save the lives of an appreciable number of victims. Radiologists, guided by Dr. Gioacchino Failla of Manhattan and Dr. Henri Coutard of Paris, both of whom spoke in Madison last week, are learning...
Your article captioned "Dead Head" (TIME, Aug. 31), describing the reconstruction of the probable appearance of a murdered man from his mutilated head, recalled to my mind a case in which an almost identical technique was employed successfully to bring about the identification of a homicidal victim whose face had been burned with acid and fire beyond all recognition. This case happened in Vienna, and the victim was a young woman. Viennese police had a sculptor reconstruct the face of the woman as it probably looked in life. From a photograph of this reconstruction, the woman was identified as Katherina...
...writer of detective tales take issue with the statement under the heading of Art (TIME, Aug. 31, p. 22), that "as far as police authorities could remember, it was the first time that an attempt had been made to solve a murder by reconstructing the probable appearance of a victim with the aid of a sculptured bust...
Until, 56 hours later, when he had dipped the flesh-colored clay in wax, inserted glass eyes and dressed the victim's original hair, which providentially had been recovered near the skull, he had before him the snub-nosed, sullen face of a temperamental Irish girl...