Word: pneumonia
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Discovery of a new treatment for pneumonia which holds out a definite hope of radically reducing the death rate has been made by Dr. Lloyd D. Felton. Assistant Professor of Preventive Medicine and Hygiene in the Harvard Medical School, according to an announcement made yesterday by the Influenza Commission of the Metropolitan Life Insurance...
...about 60 more in hospitals in New York and Brooklyn. While it is impossible to estimate the exact value of the discovery, even the most skeptical of those familiar with Dr. Felton's work have declared that at least 35 percent, and possibly 50 percent reduction in the pneumonia mortality rate is assured...
Died. Eleonora Duse, 65, famed actress; at Pittsburgh, of pneumonia. Born in a wagon near Venice while her professional father and mother were on tour, she, "Light of the Roman Stage," died trouping. She was on her farewell tour of the U. S. She had been giving only two performances a week, but the rigors of the American Winter and the ubiquitous devotion which was pressed upon her, finally shattered her spent body. In Boston the Italians knelt in the streets to kiss her skirts...
...since Kaisers, Hindenburgs, Ludendorffs, Von Tirpitzes and Bethmann-Hollwegs ceased to shake the Fatherland has Germany been so profoundly moved by an individual. The death of Hugo Stinnes in Berlin following an operation for gallstones which was complicated by pleural pneumonia, stirred the whole country to the complete exclusion of all else...
Senatorial ill health rested its heavy hand upon Robert Marion La Follette, Senator from Wisconsin. After an illness that had kept him from the Capitol for some days, his physicians announced that he had contracted pneumonia. Following as this does, a severe illness last fall, it is believed that Mr. La Follette will not be able to take an active part in this year's campaign...