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Last week, in Southampton, L. I., Andrew William Mellon, long one of his country's richest men, Secretary of the Treasury from 1921 to 1932, died of uremia, broncho-pneumonia...
Died. Mrs. Blanche E. MacLeish Billings, 74, wife of Capitalist Cornelius Kingsley Garrison Billings whose death preceded hers by ten days (TIME, May 17); of broncho pneumonia; at "Billings Park," near Santa Barbara, Calif...
Boston Beriberi. In Boston Drs. Soma Weiss & Robert W. Wilkins found numerous "alcoholics, diabetics, food cranks and pregnant women" who suffered from "rapid heart rate, enlarged heart, shortness of breath, attacks of asthma." Their skins were usually warm and red. These people were "especially prone to develop broncho-pneumonia." They suffered, the Boston doctors decided with astonishment, from beriberi, a disease due to malnutrition. It is common in the Orient, especially in Java, had never before been recognized in the U. S. Cure: vitamin...
...coughs Dr. Hamburger praises paregoric, an old derivative of opium which children's specialists now say is dangerous. According to Dr. Hamburger, "Paregoric . . . was what [Johns Hopkins'] Dr. Osier took when he himself was ill with broncho-pneumonia." Habitual constipation, "excluding diseases of the intestines and adjacent structures," Dr. Hamburger declared "is usually an ill-conditioned reflex, often associated with the abuse of purgative drugs. Most of these patients can be cured by explaining how the mechanism of defecation has been deranged and by reconditioning them by persistent daily attempts at a fixed hour to move the bowels...
...drawling commentary by Will James, interrupted by occasional dialog between human characters, accompanies the career of Smoky, a range-loving mustang who becomes leader of his herd by outfacing a mountain lion. After being trained to the saddle by broncho-busting Clint (Victor Jory), Smoky is stolen and beaten by a cowhand he once threw. At length he stamps his captor to death, heads for the open range. Clint gives him up for lost, goes away to be a meatpacker. Captured, Smoky becomes successively a rodeo broncho, a riding horse, a junkman's nag. Just as he ambles into...