Word: pneumonia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...research completed just in time for cheering at the dedicatory exercises last week was a new derivative of quinine which relieves pneumonia. While Mr. Mellon listened attentively, Dr. William Watt Graham MacLachlan, physician-in-chief of Pittsburgh's Mercy Hospital where the stuff was given to patients last year, reported that the use of hydroxy-ethyl-apocupreine cut his pneumonia death rate in half. Only 27% of his patients died as compared with the 45% Pittsburgh mortality rate. It is given like quinine in capsules by mouth...
...Pneumonia Treatment. By hypodermic injection of a substance called deutero-proteose. Dr. Clyde Brook of New Orleans, reduced his death rate in both lobar and bronchopneumonia...
Nasal oils can accumulate in the lungs and remain there for life. On their way from the nose and throat they may carry infections causing what is called lipoid (fatty) pneumonia. Death in infants usually results from a secondary pneumonic infection. "Infants," said Dr. Rice, " may recover and general health may improve under proper management, although a residual pneumonic process may persist indefinitely." To prevent such accidents, Dr. Rice advised doctors and parents "not to give oily nose drops to a struggling, rebellious infant." Dr. Bela Schick, child specialist on whom Dr. Rice called for an opinion, "prohibits...
...York Legislature last week appropriated $400,000 to buy a year's supply of pneumonia serum to be given away to sick citizens who do not live in New York City. The city is expected to spend $600,000 for its inhabitants during the next year...
Boston Beriberi. In Boston Drs. Soma Weiss & Robert W. Wilkins found numerous "alcoholics, diabetics, food cranks and pregnant women" who suffered from "rapid heart rate, enlarged heart, shortness of breath, attacks of asthma." Their skins were usually warm and red. These people were "especially prone to develop broncho-pneumonia." They suffered, the Boston doctors decided with astonishment, from beriberi, a disease due to malnutrition. It is common in the Orient, especially in Java, had never before been recognized in the U. S. Cure: vitamin...