Word: pneumonia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...State Medical Society, 55 of the children got only the old-fashioned treatment; 37 got a sulfa drug in addition, and similar groups received one of two antibiotics. Children in the standard-treatment group got well faster than the others; when they had complications (such as ear infections and pneumonia), these showed up sooner and were cleared up earlier with the proper drugs...
...traits did not grow out of a conventional childhood. Bill was born in Ottumwa, Iowa (present pop. 33,631), of English-Dutch ancestry. His parents (his father was an airman too) separated when he was a baby, leaving him to be raised by his paternal grandmother. When he got pneumonia, she took him to California to build up his health...
...returned to Prague, he looked well enough as he briskly reviewed an honor guard at the airport. But the next day he was ill. A clutch of doctors, including two Russians, called to his bedside in Hradcany Castle (medieval seat of the Bohemian kings), diagnosed his trouble as pneumonia and pleurisy...
...elaborately detailed case history, the doctors did everything possible for their prophet. When his breathing became more than usually labored, they clapped an oxygen mask on him. Since he was comatose and could take no food, they fed him a glucose solution through a vein. To guard against pneumonia, they saw to it that his position in bed was changed often, and they injected penicillin. They injected caffeine to stimulate Stalin's nervous system. Following an old idea (which most U.S. doctors have abandoned), they injected camphor to boost his heart...
...outbreak of influenza which has been sweeping the U.S. has not been as mild as at first thought, the U.S. Public Health Service admitted. In 58 cities in one week, deaths from flu and pneumonia totaled 610. But the service was confident that the outbreak was waning fast...