Word: pneumonia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...took extended vacations from each other, wrote passionate letters back & forth long after they had ceased to live together as man & wife. At last, ill, frenzied, half-insane, Edith demanded a separation, accused him of trying to put her in an asylum. When she died (in 1916 of pneumonia) Havelock recalled with anguish a remark of Queen Victoria's after her husband's death: "Nobody contradicts me now, and the salt has gone out of my life...
...also be a factor in causing human peritonitis, for bacteria easily "leak" into an abdominal wound unprotected by healthy, growing tissue. Deficiency of vitamin B hampers restoration of blood-volume after operation; lack of vitamin A may pave the way for mumps, bronchitis, urinary infections, dread post-operative pneumonia...
...British refugee in Germany remained beauteous, Nazi-struck Hon. Unity Valkyrie Freeman-Mitford, sister-in-law of No. 1 British Fascist Sir Oswald Mosley. Soon after World War II began she took German citizenship by special dispensation of the Führer, then contracted double pneumonia and last week was convalescent in Munich. "I am a very sad man," groaned her father, Lord Redesdale, in London recently. "The King's enemies are the enemies of every honest Englishman...
Although sulfanilamide and sulfapyridine work wonders in the treatment of pneumonia, they sometimes bring on a train of after-effects both irritating and dangerous, including vomiting, violent headaches, acute anemia. Last week Dr. Mark McDonough Bracken of Pittsburgh's Mellon Institute reported another "miracle drug" for treatment of pneumonia, cheaper than and just as effective as sulfanilamide and sulfapyridine, but much safer. No kin to the older drugs, tongue-tripping hydroxy-ethylapocupreine is derived from quinine, is usually swallowed in gelatin capsules. Of 500 pneumonia patients treated at Pittsburgh's Mercy Hospital, said Chief Physician William Watt Graham...
...oldest President elected, William Henry Harrison, 68, died of pneumonia in 1841, after a month in office...