Word: pneumonia
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...matter how it was taken, penicillin promptly turned up in the blood. When unprotected penicillin was given to twelve pneumonia patients, they got well just as fast as they would have on injections. Only hitch: dosage must be five times the amount required when the drug is administered by injection. But WPB announced last week that there will soon be plenty of penicillin for everybody...
Died. Henrietta Szold, 84, Baltimore-born "grand old lady" of Jewry, founder of Hadassah, women's Zionist organization, who spent the last 25 years in Palestine, energetically directing Jewish resettlement work; of pneumonia; in Jerusalem...
...international conference. For the military sessions there were Generals Marshall and Somervell, Admirals King and Leahy, Vice Admiral Land of the Maritime Commission, and Major General Laurence S. Kuter, assistant chief of the Air Staff, pinch-hitting for General Arnold, who is abed in Washington with virus pneumonia. For the diplomatic conferences, U.S. representatives included Secretary of State Stettinius, Harry Hopkins, OWMR Boss Jimmy Byrnes, Ambassador Harriman, and a host of State Department experts...
...filled with etchings by Rembrandt, who had the previous night appeared to him. . . . These . . . were probably Mr. Mount's own work, but produced under some spiritualistic hallucination."* The old painter's preoccupation with Rembrandt was deeper than the Post knew. A few years before his death from pneumonia in 1868, William Sidney Mount sat down and wrote himself a letter...
Soon a small male figure in a fur-collared overcoat knocked, entered, pulled off his gloves, delicately measured Madame for alterations. Heaven be praised, it was all over. In a week Madame would have her gown. She might also have pneumonia, but she would not be shabby...