Word: bronchopneumonia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. John Garland Pollard, 65, Virginia's benign onetime (1930-34) Governor, onetime (1920-21) Federal Trade Commissioner, chairman since 1934 of the Board of Veterans' Appeals; of bronchopneumonia; in Washington...
Pneumonia Treatment. By hypodermic injection of a substance called deutero-proteose. Dr. Clyde Brook of New Orleans, reduced his death rate in both lobar and bronchopneumonia...
Died. Mrs. Fannie Rosenberg, 62, mother of Showman Billy Rose (Jumbo, Fort Worth Centennial); of bronchopneumonia; in Manhattan...
Died. John Ringling, 70, last of the seven Ringling circus brothers (others' Al, Gus, Otto, Alf T., Charles E., Henry); of bronchopneumonia; in Manhattan. For an early Ringling performance he spent $3.50 for handbills advertising "Ringling Brothers' Moral, Elevating, Instructive & Fascinating Concert & Variety Performance," strummed the bass viol at a one-night show in their Baraboo, Wis. backyard. Head of the American Circus Corp., which controlled every sizable U. S. circus unit, in 1933 he had been forced to sign over most of the Ringling assets to meet an interest payment on a loan...
...millions of men, women and children died from a worldwide epidemic of influenza. During the same period many U. S. pigs also died from an epidemic of a disease which duplicated all the symptoms of influenza in human beings. Stricken swine developed low fever, cough, bronchopneumonia. Last week the Rockefeller Institute's experts, Drs. Richard Edwin Shope & Thomas Francis Jr. declared, in the Journal of Experimental Medicine, that their researches prove "that swine were originally infected with influenza from man in 1918." Human flu has weakened since 1918, pig flu continues unabated...