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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...another august convention in Atlantic City-that of the American Bronchoscopic Society - Dr. Sidney Yankhauer, of Manhattan, described how cancer can be relieved by means of a chain made of three links, preferably platinum, with a capsule containing radium in each link, which, in a rubber casing and weighted with a gold ball, is swallowed by the patient and kept in the intestines several hours a day. Other cancer treatments were outlined by the learned members. All agreed that there was no cure...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Chain | 6/1/1925 | See Source »

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