Word: pneumonia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Next month every one of the 300,000 Civilian Conservation Corps enrollees who is willing will get a hypodermic injection in his arm. In consequence it is hoped that no more than 300 of them will develop pneumonia this winter, and only ten of them will die from this disease, which regularly kills 100,000 U. S. people each year. But those CCC men who refuse the injections will not be so lucky. According to the averages, pneumonia will fell two out of every thousand of them, and one out of eleven who take sick may expect...
...called SSS '"Soluble Specific Substance").* Dissolved in salt water and injected under the skin, it stimulates the blood to develop antibodies which kill specific germs. There are 32 different types of pneumococci. SSS is effective only against Types I and II, which cause half of the cases of pneumonia in this country. The inventor of Soluble Specific Substance, Dr. Lloyd Derr Felton, who had experimented at Harvard and now at Johns Hopkins, hopes to develop similar sugary substances to be used against other pneumonia types. But before he can turn all of his attention to that effort, he must...
Last week, in Southampton, L. I., Andrew William Mellon, long one of his country's richest men, Secretary of the Treasury from 1921 to 1932, died of uremia, broncho-pneumonia...
...early life was spent at Troy, N. Y., and New York City. Married to William Shields in 1846, she was mother of a large and active family in the Middle West in a time deeply affected by the Civil War. She died after a brief illness of pneumonia in 1883. A devout member of the Presbyterian Church of which her brother, Alexander Duncan, was the minister, her activities outside her home were largely given to his congregation. Her unselfish neighborliness was attested by many friends...
...trustee. Six weeks later, when the special audit was completed, Joseph resigned voluntarily. Lawyers' fees for the eight-year quarrel were $1,012,500. Joseph died in 1932. He caught cold watching horse races at New Orleans, insisted on returning to the track blanketed in a wheelchair, took pneumonia. His estate totalled approximately $1,000,000. Sister Mary died in 1906, with no sons to inherit her husband's title. Lord Curzon married again, a Mrs. Alfred Duggan; was elevated to be a Marquess, making Mrs. Duggan a Marchioness. Sister Nancy died in 1930. Sister Marguerite lives...