Word: bronchos
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Back in court was tomato-nosed Funnyman W. C. Fields, trying again to sidestep payment of Dr. Jesse Citron's $12,000 fee for treating a bad case of broncho-pneumonia in 1936. In the first trial the doctor claimed that Fields got sick from drinking too much ("about two quarts a day"). Said Funnyman Fields: "It was two other diseases. I've never been sick from drinking whiskey...
...influenza. And it infects practically every person exposed to it, unless he has been immunized by an attack of the disease. In this country next winter and spring some 800,000 people, chiefly children, will catch measles. Only a few will die, and those the victims chiefly of broncho-pneumonia which often accompanies a measles attack. But many will suffer the rest of their lives from poor hearing which measles often initiates...
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...