Word: pneumonia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...falling or wriggling off a bed," Myrtis Walker says, "because she just stayed exactly where she was put." But soon her father, the Rev. Lorenda R. Walker, took a pastorate in Columbus. The trip to Ohio in a model A Ford was rough, and Marclan came down with pneumonia. At Columbus' Children's Hospital, doctors found something worse: she had sickle-cell anemia. That was early in 1938. It was two years before she went home from the hospital...
...Soon after riding on a white horse to his inaugural on a miserable day, General William Henry ("Old Tippecanoe") Harrison got caught in the rain while out walking, died of pneumonia one month after taking office...
...threescore years and ten" knew nothing of modern vital statistics; the average life expectancy of an Israelite baby in David's kingdom was probably no more than 30 years. Not until the individual had weathered all the hazards of gestation, birth, childhood illnesses, diseases such as tuberculosis and pneumonia could he expect to reach threescore...
...years. This is because most of the life-saving achievements in medicine and public health have been concentrated in the younger age brackets, from the first few weeks of life through adolescence. The middle-aged have benefited mainly from the decline in deaths from tuberculosis and pneumonia...
...surprise of the meet for the varsity was the fine performance of Crimson senior Jim Schlaeppi who wrested third place from two Providence runners about 200 yards from the finish. Schlaeppi whose conditioning has been slowed by a case of pneumonia, fought an uphill battle with the two Providence men for most of the race and finally came from behind as they neared the tape...