Word: pneumonia
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Mastoids. Dr. Samuel J. Kopetzky, New York, told how infection of the mastoid region, behind the ear, following influenza, sore throat, pneumonia or colds, may result in a general infection of the whole body...
...illness, reported as pneumonia, was severe; it kept him from the legislative halls; it kept him from playing an active, leading part in most of the major legislation battles of the passing session. Recently he left the Capital for Atlantic City to complete his convalescence. Presumably, the salubrious breezes of the sea awakened once more the vitality which in illness had lain dormant. He aroused himself. He took oblique cognizance of the fact that there are groups which would like to nominate him for the Presidency on a third party ticket. He wrote a letter to Herman L. Ekern, Attorney...
...with ten parts water a white, fluffy precipitate appeared. He collected this precipitate, purified it, found that it dried into a white crystalline powder which he suspected contained the antibodies in highly concentrated form. Mice. Dr. Felton experimented with the newly, found powder. Two groups of mice were given pneumonia by injection. Group A was then injected with the white powder. These recovered. Every member of Group B died. A more rigorous test was then made on one mouse. Into his body were injected enough germs "to kill a million mice." He was given the white powder-and quickly recovered...
Significance. As pneumonia causes an average of 90,000 deaths a year in he U. S., it is obvious that a saving of half, or even a quarter of these lives, is a matter of great moment. The announcement of the discovery and its possibilities was made with the authority of Dr. Milton J. Rosenau of Harvard, under whom Dr. Felton was working, Dr. William H. Park of Manhattan "and other conservative medical...
...Rosenau: "I believe a distinct advance has been made in the treatment of pneumonia. . . . Before the final word can be said concerning the usefulness and also the limitations of his agent, much scientific work must be done...