Word: pneumonia
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...fleshiness tending slightly to dominate over slenderness. There is a marked tendency for persons of similar build to intermarry, and this process of selection tends to perpetuate the inheritance of certain types of body structure. The statistics indicate also that some diseases are particularly associated with slender build: tuberculosis, pneumonia, nervousness, melancholia; whereas diabetes, inflammation of the kidneys, apoplexy, hardening of the arteries and numerous diseases of the stomach and intestines are associated with fleshy people...
Died. The Right Rev. George Coolidge Huntington, 52, cousin to President Coolidge and fourth Bishop of the Protestant Episcopal Church in Nevada; in Reno, from pneumonia...
Died. William W. Appleton, 78, Chairman of the Board of Directors of D. Appleton & Co., publishers; in Manhattan; of pneumonia...
Died. Dr. Edward Lawrence Keyes, 80, famed surgeon and dermatologist, frequent contributor to medical literature; in Manhattan, of pneumonia...
...Streptococcus-a genus of micro-organisms which do not move but remain grouped in long chains, producing pus and causing pneumonia, erysipelas...