Word: ailments
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Francis' eye ailment probably was trachoma, an ancient Egyptian affliction. For it St. Francis' physicians applied eye bindings, salves, plasters and urina virginis pueri, the sovereign eye wash which later became the favorite collyrium of that great medieval Spanish ophthalmologist who became Pope John XXI. In final resort the doctors applied hot irons to the Saint's face...
...tenant farmer in Jefferson County was unable, because of old age and illness, to work out his crop. A physician prescribed for his ailment, but the man could not buy the medicine, and no relief agency would supply it. A four-year-old girl in the family died at the end of the year of anemia. The tenant moved several miles away to another farm, but after several weeks the landowner decided that he was too old and ill to work a crop on a tenant-farmer basis, or on any other basis, and he was evicted...
Died. Dr. Elmer Isaac McKesson, 53, physician, pioneer inventor of gas and anesthesia appliances, an oxygen tent, an artificial larynx; of a kidney ailment; in Toledo, Ohio. He founded McKesson Appliance Co., one of the world's largest firms of its kind, died with one of his own oxygen masks on his face...
Died, Jay Gould, 45, grandson of Railman Jay Gould, winner of U. S. court tennis championships from 1906 to 1926, 19 times doubles champion (with W. C. Wright, W. H. Tevis Huhn, Joseph Walker Wear); of a throat ailment; in Margaretville...
Died. George Bistany, 45, famed animalcatcher, superintendent of San Francisco's Zoo; of high blood pressure, a kidney ailment and grief; in San Francisco. Last November the Zoo's prize orangutan "Ginger" died of poison. Its keeper, Jack Bamberger, promptly took to his bed, died two days later of a heart ailment and grief. Superintendent Bistany, who credited "Ginger" with having saved his life when he was attacked by another ape, also fell ill. Explained he: "I don't know what happened to me. Ginger was my friend. He could lick 30 men." Two days after Bistany...