Word: pneumonia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Medical School that the greatest number of animals are kept. Some of the doctors get their own specimens for special experiments but the majority are cared for in a special animal farm that requires several attendants to operate. One doctor receives 100 mice every week for pneumonia injections, while another doctor administers yellow fever germs to 25 monkeys each week. About 2500 pounds of horse meat is used each week for food for the animals...
Died. George Clinton Ward, 70, old-time railroader, president of Southern California Edison Co.; of pneumonia; in Los Angeles...
...Unction, she saw a vision of mother Cabrini, soon recovered. Next week in Chicago doctors were to examine Peter Smith, 12, of Manhattan. Peter Smith was blinded soon after birth, when a careless nurse washed his eyes with silver nitrate in 50% solution instead of 1%. He also contracted pneumonia. Prayers were addressed to Mother Cabrini. Peter Smith regained his health, his sight and now plans to become a priest...
Died. Francis William ("Iron Major") Cavanaugh, 57, football coach at Fordham. Dartmouth, Boston College, Holy Cross for which he produced many a potent team during his 30-odd years in the sport; of cerebral hemorrhage and pneumonia following an operation; on his chicken farm at Marshfield, Mass...
Died. Frederick Starr, 74, famed anthropologist, authority on U.S. and Japanese aborigines, longtime (1895-1923) University of Chicago professor; of bronchial pneumonia; in Tokyo. An eccentric bachelor who hated women and telephones, he made news when he: took a group of Japan's hairy Ainus to the St. Louis Exposition in 1904; introduced marihuana (dope) cigarets to his Chicago students...