Word: pneumonia
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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This is one of the best "convalescent" books of the year. It doesn't matter what you're convalescing from, whether it be pneumonia, or mid-year exams, or love, or dean's notices all of us have something to convalesce from this book is your medicine. It should be taken in a semi-reclining posture, preferably before a big open fire, and should be accompanied by a good pipe and a sympathetic roommate who won't be too bored by having an occasional choice passage read aloud...
Died. Dr. Albert Abrams, 61, famed inventor of "Spondylotherapy" (TIME, Nov. 12) of pneumonia, in San Francisco...
...Pneumonia...
...case. Emphatically they prove nothing against beardless brilliance. Horrible as a nation of prodigies would be, one now and then escapes premature impotence. There was a boy Chatterton who fooled wiseacres, an astounding child Macaulay, and the infant Mozart who played so sweetly that the whole family risked pneumonia to listen. And then, more recently, there is Daisy Ashford and the "Young Visitors...
...number of years have been climbing steadily, increased to 80,938, or a rate of 86.8 per 100,000, which is 0.8 more than the 1921 rate. In 1918 the rate was 80.3. Cancer is now the fourth killing disease in America, topped only by organic heart diseases, pneumonia, tuberculosis. Whether the increased cancer rate is actual or merely apparent on account of earlier diagnosis and improved registration is a question which has not been settled by hygienists. Only five states-Colorado, Massachusetts, Michigan, New Jersey, Wisconsin-showed lower cancer mortality in 1922 than in 1921. New Hampshire...