Word: pneumonia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Symptoms: Mind "apprehensive, alert, anxious and restless . . . a peculiar analogy [to symptoms] seen in pneumonia.'' Closed eyelids tremble. "Gnawing hunger pain in pains the of ulcer.'' epigastrium not Gurgling unlike in the the intestines "and sometimes a mild watery diarrhea. . . . Increase in sexual functions...
Died. Most Rev. James Anthony Walsh, 69, Titular Bishop of Siene, co-founder and Superior General of the Maryknoll Fathers (Catholic Foreign Mission Society of America); of pneumonia: at Maryknoll, Ossining...
...Hamburger doubts the efficacy of vaccines to prevent colds. He also points out that liquid vaseline placed in the nostrils of sniffling infants may drip into their lungs and cause pneumonia, warns against all mentholated preparations for infants' colds because the menthol may cause spasms in the infants' throats and choke them. To alleviate colds Dr. Hamburger advises rest in bed and a simple prescription equivalent of which is an aspirin tablet with a cup of weak coffee every four hours and a glass of water in between.* Nonetheless, he concludes: "More can be done specifically for pernicious...
...coughs Dr. Hamburger praises paregoric, an old derivative of opium which children's specialists now say is dangerous. According to Dr. Hamburger, "Paregoric . . . was what [Johns Hopkins'] Dr. Osier took when he himself was ill with broncho-pneumonia." Habitual constipation, "excluding diseases of the intestines and adjacent structures," Dr. Hamburger declared "is usually an ill-conditioned reflex, often associated with the abuse of purgative drugs. Most of these patients can be cured by explaining how the mechanism of defecation has been deranged and by reconditioning them by persistent daily attempts at a fixed hour to move the bowels...
...clothes, which might prevent an epidemic of influence or even pneumonia in the flooded areas, can be sent to those in need through Phillips Brooks House...