Word: pneumonia
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...very few U. S. people now die of smallpox. During the last week of November, when the U. S. Public Health Service last compiled statistics, there was not one smallpox death reported in the entire country. At the same period there were 676 deaths from influenza and pneumonia, much less than last year...
Died. James F. Case, 61, engineer, Spanish-American War veteran, onetime (1908) Director of Philippine Public Works, head of the Paris office of Stone & Webster; in Manhattan; of pneumonia and heart disease...
Either operation exposes the gland so that the surgeon can enucleate it with his fingernail or blunt scissors. The operation requires the best of skill and asepsis. Infection can cause more trouble than hypertrophy. Because the patients are usually elderly men whom ether anesthesia would make susceptible to pneumonia, surgeons prefer local anesthesia. The patient can be propped up in bed the day after his operation, sit in a chair after a week, be well in three weeks. Dangers against which the convalescent must guard include pneumonia, hiccoughing, gas on the stomach. Epsom salt is poison to the convalescent...
Said she pithily: "A car goes up slanting." In 1920, at 93, she had pneumonia and erysipelas, but pulled through. Her 100th birthday was triumphantly celebrated with a party in her honor, at which she said a lengthy grace in a firm loud voice, while 41 descendants bowed their heads. Nearly two years later she died quietly...
February 2--Dr. W. D. Sutliff, "Pneumonia...