Word: pneumonia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Even more startling than recent overall advances in surgery is the improved outlook for aged patients who need operations. Surgeons used to dread such cases; all too often the patient went into shock on the operating table, or died soon after of pneumonia. How radically things have changed is pointed out by Surgeon Sidney E. Ziffren of the State University of Iowa. "Successful surgery is now constantly performed in the aged," he notes. "Surgery should not be withheld because of a patient...
Died. Helene Costello, 53. onetime brunette silent-film star (Good Time Charley, Lights of New York), sister of the late John Barrymore's blonde third wife, Cinemactress Dolores Costello, and daughter of oldtime Broadway and Hollywood idol Maurice Costello; of pneumonia, five days after she was committed to the Patton State Hospital for narcotics addiction (destitute and ailing, she had spent much of her time since 1938 in a tuberculosis sanatorium and an actors' home); in Norwalk, Calif...
Died. Stewart McDonald, 78, founder and president (1907-28) of the old Moon Motor Car Co., Federal Housing Administrator from 1935 to 1940; of pneumonia; in Manhattan...
...have dared to take a chance. In the British Medical Journal, Surgeon Eric Coldrey reports that, in three years at Rotherham Hospital in Yorkshire, he has taken this chance in 137 cases of acute appendicitis and has lost only one patient (a feeble man of 78, who succumbed to pneumonia...
...doctors generally obey the injunction, "Physician, heal thyself." A.M.A. statisticians found that among 204,450 M.D.s followed for three years, there were 6% fewer deaths than in the general population. Despite physicians' exposure to infectious diseases, their death rates from influenza, pneumonia and tuberculosis were about half the national average. They had 7% fewer deaths from cancer, but 35% more from diabetes, and after 60, slightly more from heart disease...