Word: viruses
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...That cancer is caused by a virus ultra-minute germ) or group of viruses, and that it is this same virus that produces all kinds of cancers...
...That the virus alone cannot get a foothold in a living organism and cause cancer...
...something else which accompanies the virus when it makes an infection he calls "the specific factor." It is found in extracts from tumors. It may act as an irritant (for chronic irritation is known to promote cancer) or in some similar matter...
...would be more than willing to pass on to other places news items which do not reflect creditably on itself, but it is not so. New York has a singular and inordinate appetite for self-advertising, preferably of an unfavorable sort, and evidently Brooklyn has become infected with the virus. The city of Walt Whitman and Henry Ward Beecher, not content with being known as the terminus of the subway, wants its own little murders duly credited to Brooklyn. A journalistic plot to make Brooklyn into an obscure hamlet of two and one half million souls must certainly exist...
...central government over the industrial and political life of the people; but the steps for accomplishing this undoubted good are too vague and too difficult. The only other outcome seems to be that western materialism, introduced by force, will be poisoned in root and branch by the concomitant virus of class-conscious hatreds...