Word: ailments
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Worst Ailment, worse than pneumonia or cancer, in that it handicaps or kills more people yearly, is the group of ailments called heart disease. William Harvey (1578-1657), whose memory the post graduate students honored last week by viewing a cinema version of monumental discovery, first demonstrated the circulation of the blood.* The heart pumps blood into the arteries normally 72 times a minute. The blood pulsates through the arteries to tiny arterioles, whence it seeps into capillaries. From the capillaries the blood seeps into minute venules, then flows through the veins back to the heart...
...nurses; John Rushworth, Earl Jellicoe, 71, commander of the British Fleet at the Battle of Jutland, in Cowes, Isle of Wight, of bronchitis; Cinemactress Patsy Ruth Miller, 26, in Hollywood, of an intestinal disorder contracted in Tahiti; Arthur Hammer" stein, 55, theatrical producer, in Manhattan, of a bladder ailment...
...comedians.* It was believed that those who danced before St. Vitus would be certain of good health during the following year. Hence the general name for the disease. The medical term is chorea, which like chorus connotes dancing. Chorea, or St. Vitus's Dance, is a nervous ailment which the afflicted cannot help, caused by some infection. The causative organism has not yet been recognized. Rheumatic fever is often associated with St. Vitus's Dance. Seven out of ten victims are girls. They are usually "nervous," "high-strung" children to begin with. The disease usually burns itself...
...onetime Fisticuffer James J. ("Gentleman Jim") Corbett (who won the world's heavyweight championship from John L. Sullivan 39 years ago this week), of an intestinal ailment, in Manhattan; Viceroy Lord Willingdon of India, of dysentery, at Simla; bankrupt Theatrical Producer Arthur Hammerstein, of a ruptured bladder, in Manhattan; Cinemactress Constance Bennett, with adhesions after her appendectomy of last year, in Manhattan; famed Scientist Sir David Bruce (discoverer of the cause of Malta fever, namesake of the bacteria group "Brucella"), in London; Queen Marie of Rumania, of a female complaint due to her age (55), at Bucharest...
Died. Ralph Harman Booth, 57, U. S. Minister to Denmark; of heart dis ease and a kidney ailment; in Bad Gastein, Austria. An oldtime journalist, he be came editor and publisher in 1904 of the Detroit Tribune, founded Booth News papers Inc. with his brother George G. Booth. As president of the chain he con trolled eight Michigan newspapers...