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Abstract A male patient receiving hyperthermia treatment for cancer at the American Medical Center (AMC) Cancer Research Center and Hospital. Nurse Betty Bales is adjusting a thermometer for the treatment which helps to weaken cancer cells. AMC was located on the grounds of the former Jewish Consumptives' Relief Society (JCRS). The JCRS was a sanatorium for tuberculosis patients that was founded in 1904 by a group of immigrant Jewish workingmen along with the support of several leading physicians and...