Word: pneumonia
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...ptomaine poisoning, which had compelled him suddenly to abandon his tour, was followed by a slight attack of pneumonia. For a day or two it did not seem as if he were throwing off the poison. Then gradual improvement followed. His temperature abated, his pulse approached normal. The bulletins of physicians in attendance had at first pronounced his condition " serious." Succeeding bulletins gave more and more encouragement to the hope that he would recover. Public apprehension was allayed...
...showed that patches of broncho-pneumonia had developed in the right lung. The President's condition was pronounced serious...
...sudden death from pneumonia of Dr. Hermann Michael Biggs, New York State Health Commissioner, removes perhaps the most distinguished state or city health officer in the U. S.-a man even more widely known abroad than at home as a pioneer in both the laboratory and administrative phases of preventive medicine. He had been Commissioner continuously since 1914, under both Republican and Democratic Governors, who recognized the folly of breaking up the splendidly efficient organization which Dr. Biggs had built...
Died. Maurice Hewlett, 62, novelist, authority on heraldry, of pneumonia, at Broadchalke, Salisbury, England. Among his famous books are The Forest Lovers, Richard Yea-and-Nay, The Queen's Quair...
...this invention assumes its proper significance only when placed in a series which has gradually been developing, and when it is realized that diseases of the heart now cause a larger number of fatalities than any other single type of illness. Not long ago tuberculosis and pneumonia led all the rest, but medical research has now found means of fighting these, with fresh air, with oxygen, with serum, and by other more technical means, until the number of deaths recorded from each has become less and less. But on the other hand the recent cardioscope is merely the continuation...