Word: pneumonia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...garden. Besides, he was following most of the rules of "How to Become President (TIME, Nov. 24, 1930). He had a Press (Rule No. 5) in & out of Ohio. He moved about the country (Rule No. 6) showing himself, making speeches. Except for a mild touch of pneumonia in 1930, he seemed full of health (Rule No. 7). He was on good terms with his party leaders (Rule No. 3) giving generously of his time & money to their united efforts. For a political alter ego (Rule No. 1) he had no need because he was always ready and able...
Died. William Kerr Kavanaugh, 72, St. Louis coal and shipping tycoon, baseball enthusiast, leader in the Great Lakes-to-the-Gulf waterway project; of pneumonia; in St. Louis...
Died. Charles Leavitt Edgar, 71, general manager (since 1890) and president (since 1900) of Edison Electric Illuminating Co. of Boston, onetime president of the National Electric Light Association; of pneumonia; in Atlantic City...
Thus, after certain operations (particularly of the abdomen), after anesthesia, asphyxia or apparent drowning, tiny recesses of the lungs may be plugged. The lungs may partially collapse. Secondary pneumonia often results. Carbon dioxide may stimulate the lungs to deep, full inhalation. In fact, wrote Professor Henderson in the Yale Journal of Biology & Medicine, "It appears that this is probably a specific treatment against all secondary pneumonia...
...saving of newborn lives is a beneficence for which Professor Hender son takes great kudos. Wrote he: ''A large per cent of the deaths of newborn babies are caused by pneumonia developing in undilated areas of the lungs, scientists have learned. The lungs are not fully dilated by the first cry, or for many hours or even days after birth. The ancient practice of making a child cry several times a day is often ineffective in over coming atelectasis (imperfect expansion of the lungs at birth). The old barbarous and often ineffective methods of resuscitating the newborn by swinging, spanking...