Word: pneumonia
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...conditioning and treat their patients for all manner of ailments, sometimes working on them as they stand, sometimes casting them (i.e., throwing them down) to make them take their medicine. When horses arrive at the depots they often fall sick of what oldsters call "shipping cold" (sometimes resulting in pneumonia). This cured, they go into training, come out gentled, trained to harness, pack or saddle, ready for assignment to a service outfit...
...onetime Secretary of the Interior Albert Bacon Fall lay in an Albuquerque hospital recovering from pneumonia, the famed 1,000,000-acre Three Rivers Ranch in New Mexico, on which Secretary Fall said he spent the $100,000 bribe which he took from Oilman Edward L. Doheny in the Teapot Dome scandal, was sold for a dude ranch...
...knives. Modern operating tables cost at least $200, but Chinese doctors now build useful tables out of bamboo for ten cents. Only the most essential drugs are used, and often surgeons must operate without anesthetics. But they try to practice 1941 medicine. At present they are using sulfapyridine for pneumonia, will soon experiment with sulfathiazole for bubonic plague, may try brand-new sulfaguanidine for dysentery. They are planning to establish blood banks and to start manufacture of vitamins...
...Pneumonia and tuberculosis can be overcome, says Dr. Lim, only if troops are provided with adequate clothing and food. "One of the most serious of venereal diseases is gonorrheal ophthalmia [inflammation of the eyes]" due to lack of water, neglect of elementary personal hygiene (and vitamin A deficiency...
Died. Robert Walton Moore, 81, shrewd, leathery Virginia politico,' most intimate personal friend of Cordell Hull, Congressman for six terms, Assistant Secretary of State 1933-37, Counselor of the Department since 1937; of pneumonia; at his Fairfax, Va. home...