Word: pneumonia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Died. Ben W. Hooper, 86, onetime (1911-15) Republican governor of Tennessee, who was credited with averting a nationwide railroad strike in 1921 after getting together with railwaymen; of pneumonia ; in Newport, Tenn...
...stepped down from the premiership of Japan and gave way to a presumably healthier 72-year-old Tanzan Ishibashi, who boasted, "I can eat and drink anything." But for exactly one-half of the time Prime Minister Ishibashi has been in office, he has been laid up with bronchial pneumonia. Last week, after elbowing their way through a crowd of spectators jamming the garden and the street outside, four doctors politely took off their shoes and entered the sick Premier's Tokyo home to make an official examination. "Apparently the main problem is his heart," the Premier...
...paraded in defiant anticipation of sanctions could hardly conceal their satisfaction. "We have forced on the State Department a transformation in its thinking," said one. But in Jerusalem, old (70) Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion was being stubborn. Looking drawn and thin from his three weeks' struggle against pneumonia, he brooded for three days before calling a Cabinet meeting to draft a reply. The U.S. offered nothing new on Gaza. But Dulles' implied willingness to back Israel's Aqaba rights by sending a U.S. ship through the gulf to establish the international right of "innocent passage" raised...
...However, the aged actually need a smaller fluid volume than younger persons, so in trying to guard against a deficit, doctors now take care not to boost the patient's fluid volume too high-otherwise, there is a risk of pneumonia...
...Anesthesia is kept to a minimum, so that the patient is already "coming out" at the end of the operation, thereby reducing strain on the heart and further reducing the pneumonia risk...