Word: bronchopneumonia
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...patient: "You have an area of stringy shadows from your hilar region extending to the base, and I can hear a few crackles in your chest." Says Truman: "Actually, 'Aba-ca-dav-snaba-pooh' would have conveyed as much meaning to the patient [who had a mild bronchopneumonia...
Died. Thomas Wright ("Fats") Waller, 39, famed jazz pianist and composer (TIME, Aug. 9); of bronchopneumonia; in Kansas City. A Harlem pastor's son, portly, powerful, 2/o-lb. Fats Waller wrote such jazz classics as Honeysuckle Rose, Ain't Misbehavin', My Fate Is in Your Hands, I've Got a Feelin' I'm Fallin'. He once defined swing (for a serious young woman): "Lady...
Champion Lost was the nation's outstanding liberal. Roberto M. Ortiz, who last month, after two politically impotent years of diabetic near-blindness, resigned the presidency to Acting President Castillo (TIME, July 6). Twenty days later, struck also with influenza and bronchopneumonia. Ortiz died. Thus passed the man who had been elected in 1938 by the largest popular vote in the nation's history...
...After three to five days, his dried skin shows angry rashes. His delirium increases until he lies unconscious, his tongue dry and brown, his pulse feeble. Often his temperature rises to 108-9°, and he dies. (In some epidemics 65% have died.) Typhus is frequently complicated by bronchitis, bronchopneumonia, gangrene, paralysis...
...death rate from measles itself is very small. New York's 20,000 cases by week end yielded only six deaths. But every severe case of measles is accompanied by bronchitis, which may turn into bronchopneumonia. Other complications to be guarded against: eye and ear infections, colitis, brain abscess, stirring up inactive tuberculosis. The mortality is highest in children under three. School age is the ideal time to have measles. Once a child has had it, he is almost always immune thereafter...