Word: pneumonia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After the baby had been pronounced dead of pneumonia in an informal inquest at the bus station in Salt Lake City, the fearful Navajos pleaded that it be sent home by other means. That, they were told, was impossible. To Navajos the mysterious word "Washin-tone" stands for all Government officialdom. "Washin-tone," they cried. "Will they not take care of it?" But impatient cops ordered, "Back on the bus. Back on the bus. Take the baby with you." One of them added: "Just put it in the baggage rack...
Even so, doctors did not think she could live long. But each day Mrs. Butler surprised them. She .gained strength, she did not get pneumonia as expected, and her temperature fell from 103 to 100. Still, the doctors felt sure that her brain must have been damaged by long hours of oxygen starvation. Mrs. Butler surprised them all again. When she regained consciousness she seemed fully coherent. By week's end she was taking solid food and was about ready...
Thousands of Hollanders were ready to swear that Simon W. J. Schaasberg, whose shingle proclaimed him a "psychometrist-homeopath," had cured them of every complaint in the book, from stuffy noses and hemorrhoids to pneumonia and cancer. For years, the sick had packed the tiny front room of Shaasberg's house in Maastricht. The street was sometimes blocked by cars and chartered buses that brought patients from afar. No less remarkable than his popularity were Shaasberg's methods...
...Pasadena, Calif., four-year-old Donnie Morton of Archerwill, Sask., who had made good progress in a series of operations for water on the brain (TIME, July 2 and Sept. 3), caught pneumonia and died in his sleep...
...plain Joe McCarthy these days, was born on a farm in Grand Chute, a few miles north of Appleton. One of seven children, he quit school early, parlayed 50 chickens into a flock of 10,000, but lost nearly all of them one winter when he came down with pneumonia and turned over his flock to some friends. At 18 he wangled a job as manager of a grocery store in nearby Manawa...