Word: bronchopneumonia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Cause of the disease is the reproductive spores of the coccidioides fungus. which are found in grape, hay and cotton dust-primarily in the San Joaquin Valley. When the spores are inhaled they settle in the lungs, cause symptoms similar to those of flu, common cold or bronchopneumonia. In a few days the "cold" clears up, but a week or two later, painful red swellings appear on the shins, thighs, arms, scalp. Known to valley workers as "the bumps," this erythemanodosum lasts anywhere from a few days to several weeks. When it finally fades, leaving only brown spots, the first...
Died. Pearl White, 41, and Warner Oland, 57, respectively heroine and villain of The Fatal Ring, Wartime cinema serial thriller; Miss White in Paris of a liver ailment, Mr. Oland in Stockholm of bronchopneumonia. Throughout her career as serial queen, Miss White never used a double, never visited Hollywood. Mr. Oland, who often threatened cinema death to daring, cliff-hanging Heroine White, won further fame as Detective Charlie Chan in a recent series of mystery films; Miss White in 1921 retired to Paris with a fortune...
Died. Colonel Grayson Mallet-Prevost Murphy, 58, senior partner of G.M.-P. Murphy & Co., World War U. S. Red Cross Commissioner and lieutenant colonel in the A.E.F.; of bronchopneumonia; in Manhattan. In 1921 Grayson Murphy laid the foundation of his financial reputation by skillfully reorganizing Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. Last year a committee he headed salvaged for debenture holders what little there was to be salvaged from the Kreuger & Toll disaster. Little known outside of Wall Street, Grayson Murphy was not only a Republican who shot grouse in Scotland, but in 1928 a Liberal (meaning wet) Republican...
Died. Edmund Lester Pearson, 57, literary criminologist (The Trial of Lizzie Borden, Murder at Smutty Nose, Studies in Murder); of bronchopneumonia; in Manhattan...
Died. Sir James Matthew Barrie, 77, whimsical author of Peter Pan, The Little Minister, Sentimental Tommy; of bronchopneumonia; in London...