Word: pneumonia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Difficulty in breathing (dyspnea) is one of the most disturbing symptoms, and may indicate serious disease, e.g., asthma, pneumonia, congestive heart failure, anemia. Morphine provides quick relief, but may be dangerous. Other remedies, depending on the cause: adrenaline, blood transfusions, oxygen, removing obstructions from the windpipe...
...Mildred J. Corballis, who for years had made a specialty out of serving dessert in the Union, died Sunday night of a heart attack in the Cambridge City Hospital. A Union employee since 1947, Mrs. Corballis had been in an oxygen tent for the preceding week, undergoing treatment for pneumonia...
Died. Ralph S. Damon, 58, president of Trans World Airlines; of pneumonia, in Mineola, N.Y. Energetic, inquisitive Harvardman ('18) Damon learned to fly before he learned to drive a car, was an air cadet in World War I, put the famed P47 Thunderbolt into mass production in World War II. Air travelers are in debted to Damon for helping develop 1) the first all-sleeper transport plane, and 2) low-cost tourist travel on both domestic and international lines...
...Eugenie the Dugong, who later turned out to be Eugene, died of pneumonia six weeks after arriving in San Francisco...
...limbs were massaged regularly. Day and night for seven years, he was shifted every half hour from one position to another to keep his circulation unimpaired. When, in the second year, he developed an abscess, he was operated on without anesthesia. In the fourth year he was cured of pneumonia with penicillin...