Word: pneumonia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hydrochloric acid out of his sick-rooms, popped it before the medical profession for all comers to examine and criticize. Dr. Denis Eugene St. Jacques, professor of history of medicine in the University of Montreal, claims to cure patients of boils, erysipelas, gonococcic infections, rheumatism, tonsillitis, peritonitis, childbed fever, pneumonia, inflammation of gallbladder, shingles-by injecting finely powdered charcoal into their veins...
Died. Victor Christian William Cavendish, 69, ninth Duke of Devonshire and head of one of England's oldest families; of pneumonia; in London. An M. P. at 23, he held many a high office, was from 1916 to 1921 Governor-General of Canada...
Died. Willie Wimbish Daniel, Atlanta's famed and ageless Negro cateress; of pneumonia; in Atlanta. The daughter of slaves, she moved to Atlanta from Greenville, Ga. in the 1880s, became a supreme authority on Southern cooking, prepared banquets for many a visiting President, always turned up for a job in a shiny motorcar. She claimed she learned to cook from "a Yankee lady, a Mrs. Sherman...
...Sculptor Schlag won the $1,000 sooner, it might have saved the life of his 28-year-old bride of less than a year, who died of pneumonia in March after 22 weeks' illness. Schlag, who could not afford to send her to a hospital, designed the Jefferson nickel in such time as he could spare from nursing...
Died. Grey Owl, 50, self-educated Canadian Indian trapper who turned naturalist and conservationist (TIME, Jan. 3); of pneumonia; in Prince Albert, Sask. Returning a month ago from a tour of the U. S. and England, where he gave a command performance before King George and Queen Elizabeth, he told Ontario newshawks that "another month of this lecturing will kill...