Word: pneumonia
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Chlorine was found to be a preventative for pneumonia and influenza when it was noticed that men working in the army laboratory where there was a trace of chlorine in the air seemed immune from the prevalent epidemic of those diseases. Lewisite has been used in direct experiment with good results upon persons inflicted with locomotor ataxia. The much abused guinea pig was cured of a severe attack of tuberculosis by inhaling a very small quantity of the burning mustard...
Died. Laurel Tarkington, 17, daughter of Booth Tarkington, the author, in Indianapolis, of pneumonia...
Died. George Edward Stanhope Molyneux Herbert, fifth Earl of Carnarvon, 56, at Cairo, Egypt, of blood poisoning and pneumonia...
Several acute cases of pneumonia have been alleviated by passing a high-frequency alternating electric current through the lungs. The treatments were conducted at St. Mary's Hospital, Hoboken, New Jersey, under the direction of Dr. H. V. Broeser, X-ray specialist, after the method had been introduced by Dr. Harry E. Stewart, of Yale University, in a series of twenty cases at the United States Marine Hospital, Staten Island...
...electric currents internally, known as " diathermy," is no novelty in many diseases, and external heat-producing agents, such as mustard plasters, have been well-known old-fashioned remedies in pneumonia treatment, but this particular application is still in the experimental stage, although several New York specialists are using similar methods. The current is applied through two electric plates, one fitted to the back and one to the chest. The current flows directly through the lungs without burning the skin or causing dangerous fever elsewhere in the body, and is believed to raise the temperature within the lungs themselves to about...