Word: pneumonia
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Died. Hermann Sudermann, 71, famed German dramatist & novelist, whose tragedy Heimat (Magda) was played by Modjeska, Duse, Mrs. Fiske; from apoplexy and pneumonia; in Berlin...
...long line of philosophers who have tried to explain the Earth's origin, the best died last week. He was Thomas Chrowder Chamberlin, 85, professor emeritus of geology at the University of Chicago. His death was due to heart disease, made worse by bronchial pneumonia. His theory, the planetesimal, he ex pounded again in a new book published only last month - The Two Solar Families - the Sun's Children (University of Chicago Press, $2.50). In brief his theory is this : Eons ago a Star, swished near the Sun and by its gravity, sucked a great, explosive cloud...
Died. Judge Thomas P. Riley, 53, of Maiden, Mass., onetime campaign manager for Woodrow Wilson, onetime defeated opponent of Calvin Coolidge for the Lieutenant-Governorship of Massachusetts; of pneumonia; in Cleveland, where he had been campaigning for Alfred E. Smith. It was Judge Riley, with Senator David Ignatius Walsh of Massachusetts, who secured the New England vote for Governor Smith in the Houston convention...
September is past with its yearly threat of an infantile paralysis epidemic. But winter comes on with its certainty of pneumonia...
Doctors hope to keep pneumonia low this year. Their best advice is to guard against common colds. If colds develop, the patient should rest in bed and eat nourishing foods. If pneumonia develops, alert doctors this year have a new serum to use. Old ones required three injections to cure. The new one, announced last week by Dr. William Hallock Park of New York City's health department, the man who has done so much bacteriological work to prevent disease, requires but two injections. Its supply so far is scant. Not until December will there be enough...