Word: pneumonia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. Alma Rubens, 33, cinemactress (Humoresque, The Valley of Silent Men, Enemies of Women); of pneumonia; in Los Angeles. Famed for her dark beauty, she married thrice (Actor Franklyn Farnum, Dr. Daniel Carson Goodman, Actor Ricardo Cortez), divorced twice. Some years ago she became addicted to narcotics, appeared seldom thereafter in the cinema. Last month she was arrested in San Diego, charged with possession of narcotics, released on $5,000 bail...
Died. Dr. Richard Bishop Moore, 59, dean of science at Purdue University, one-time (1919?23) chief chemist and chief of the division of mineral technology of the U. S. Bureau of Mines, general manager (1923-26) of Door Co. of New York (engineers); of brain tumor and double pneumonia; in Manhattan. A pioneer experimenter in radioactivity, Dr. Moore was the first U. S. scientist to discover means of producing native radium; the first to produce helium gas in large quantities, reduce its cost (from $1,500 to 10 per cubic foot), demonstrate its superiority over inflammable hydrogen gas. From...
...anesthetics." The report noted that "the perfect form of anesthesia, free from all dangers, has not yet been discovered." And: "The chief hazards . . . that have to be compared are fatal failure of respiration, syncope [serious fainting] and collapse, postanesthetic necrosis [decay] of the liver (chiefly from chloroform), post-operative pneumonia, persistent hiccup, flares and fires from ether, the bursting of cylinders containing any gas under pressure, and particularly cylinders of oxygen or nitrous oxide if the valve is oiled, and, finally, explosions in anesthetic apparatus in which ethylene or ether is administered...
Greatest danger is pneumonia which follows anesthesia. Least is explosion. Three to five surgical cases out of every 1,000 die of pneumonia. Only one out of every 100,000 die from explosions...
Died. Mrs. Eva Lee Tardy McAdoo, relict of the late William McAdoo (New York City's longtime chief magistrate, onetime New Jersey Representative in Congress. Assistant Secretary of the Navy under President Cleveland); of pneumonia; in Manhattan. Friends & admirers of honest Magistrate McAdoo, who left only $500, had donated $33,000 toward a $100,000 fund to keep Mrs. McAdoo and her daughter...