Word: pneumonia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Institute, will get the first $1,500 John Phillips Memorial Prize* when the American College of Physicians meets in San Francisco early next April. Thus he gets unusually prompt reward for reporting only last July what seems to be a specific remedy for the most deadly kind of lobar pneumonia. In lobar pneumonia one or more sections of a lung are infected. In bronchopneumoma, which is usually associated with other diseases like influenza, the infection is throughout the bronchi...
Usual cause of lobar pneumonia is a pneumococcus, of which there are 32 types. Of those most studied...
Died. Augusto B. Leguia, 68, onetime President of Peru; of bronchial pneumonia following a long illness; in Lima. Small, wiry, dynamic, Peru's "Bantam Roosevelt" got his start selling U. S. life insurance, ruled as a dictator for eleven consecutive years (1919-30) until ousted by rebellion. For 15 months he languished in a Lima jail...
Died. Julia Wayne Guest. 84. mother of Rhymester Edgar Albert Guest; of pneumonia; in Detroit...
...injuries suffered when he slipped on an icy pavement; Mrs. Knute Rockne, widow of the Notre Dame football coach, in Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minn., critically, following an abdominal operation; John R. Coen, grand exalted ruler of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, in Clarksburg, W. Va., of bronchial pneumonia; Actress Dorothy Gish, 34, in Manhattan, of a nervous disorder...