Word: pneumonia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...mixture of carbon dioxide and oxygen which often will resuscitate persons shocked by electricity, may also be helpful to pneumonia patients, announced New York Edison System Electric Light Co. last week. Dr. John Jay Wittmer, the company's medical chief, used the mixture (7% carbon dioxide, 93% oxygen) on 127 pneumonia cases. Of these 42 were definitely beyond recovery. Of the remaining 85, 70 were cured, 15 died. This relative success, thought the company, warranted informing the medical profession, which might experiment more widely...
...first time since he nearly died of pneumonia two years ago, George V last week opened Parliament. Bareheaded the venerable monarch drove with Queen Mary from Buckingham Palace to the House of Lords, arrived snuffling. Repeatedly during the majestic procedure His Majesty cleared his throat as though it tickled. Once he broke a sentence in the middle to cough...
...been estimated that directly or in directly . . . [malaria] is responsible for more than half of the deaths of the human race."?Professor Herbert Harold Waite of the University of Nebraska, in his Disease Prevention. However, prime U. S. killers are heart disease, cancer, pneumonia...
Died. Harry Payne Whitney, 58; of pneumonia; in Manhattan. Scion of a distinguished Puritan line, he inherited a large part of the fortune* founded by his father, William Collins Whitney, Secretary of the Navy under President Cleveland organizer of the Metropolitan Street Railway System (New York) and other traction and rail corporations. In 1890 he married Gertrude, sculptress daughter of the second Cornelius Vanderbilt. His children: Cornelius Vanderbilt ("Sonny ) Whitney, Mrs. Flora Payne (G . MacCullough) Miller, Mrs. Barbara (Barklie McKee) Henry. Among corporations of which he was a director were Mammoth Oil Co., Sinclair Oil Co., Guaranty Trust...
Died. Joseph Boyer, 82, board chairman of Burroughs Adding Machine Co inventor of the pneumatic hammer, a drill, railway speed recorder; of pneumonia; in Detroit, Mich...