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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Control and cure of diphtheria, rabies, yellow fever, typhoid fever, pneumonia, tetanus, and innumerable other diseases and pathological surgical conditions has been effected, like the above, by dealings with dogs and guinea pigs and rabbits...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: A. M. A. Flayed | 5/21/1928 | See Source »

Died. David Gray, 60, partner of Henry Ford in his earliest Detroit machine shop where, in the production of the first Ford automobile, he began to acquire a fortune of several million dollars; of pneumonia; at Santa Barbara, Calif...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: May 21, 1928 | 5/21/1928 | See Source »

...Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research, with its efficiently equipped laboratories and hospitals on the west bank of the East River, Manhattan, has contributed to science many a life-saving discovery: curative sera for one of the fatal forms of pneumonia and for epidemic cerebrospinal meningitis; the microbes causing infantile paralysis and yellow fever; the Carrel-Dakin method of treating infected wounds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Ledger Man | 5/21/1928 | See Source »

...join in the rescue: Floyd Bennett and Bernt Balchen. At 5 o'clock of a morning they set out in a giant Ford trimotored liner. At Lake Ste. Agnes, Bennett had a fever of 102, could go no further. He was rushed to Quebec, deathly ill of pneumonia. Commander Richard Byrd came to his side; Col. Charles A. Lindbergh made an inspired flight to bring him succor (see MEDICINE, p. 22). Canada suddenly contained a noble percentage of the world's greatest fliers, for by now Clarence D. Chamberlin had joined the arctic air circus...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Consequences | 5/7/1928 | See Source »

Died. Floyd Bennett, 37, pilot of the first airplane to fly to the North Pole and back; of pneumonia; at Quebec...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: May 7, 1928 | 5/7/1928 | See Source »

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