Word: influenza
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. Anton Kozarek, hangman to the Kingdom of Hungary; of influenza developed from a cold caught while executing a robber and a murderer; in Budapest...
...April. Thus he gets unusually prompt reward for reporting only last July what seems to be a specific remedy for the most deadly kind of lobar pneumonia. In lobar pneumonia one or more sections of a lung are infected. In bronchopneumoma, which is usually associated with other diseases like influenza, the infection is throughout the bronchi...
...pound of Bovril. This circumstance is cunningly suggested by the Bovril poster, which shows a shaggy and slightly dilapidated steer staring at a bottle of Bovril with a wild surmise that is elucidated in the caption: "Alas! My poor brother." Bovril sales took a big jump during the influenza epidemic of 1918 when it became standard British hospital diet. Bovril profits - some $1,500,000 a year -have been built in part upon the assurance, heartily shared by its noble directors, that the sense of fun never sets on the British Empire. Too conservative to desert the archaic method...
Died. Frederick De Mund MacKay, 66, horseman, vice president & director of E. W. Bliss Co. (torpedoes); one day before he was to be elected president of the National Horse Show Association; of intestinal influenza; in Brooklyn...
Died. Rt. Rev. Charles Gore, 78, retired Bishop of Oxford; of influenza and pleurisy; in London. A famed Anglo-Catholic, he long sought rapprochement between Roman Catholics and Anglicans. Bishop Gore proposed a federation of churches with the Pope as First Bishop, but he balked at Papal Infallibility. Though no Modernist, he scoffed at Jonah's Whale...