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...including those of his breathing center, are depressed. He may die because he is not getting enough oxygen, or he may be getting enough to keep him alive but so little as to leave him with a damaged brain. Or the respiratory depression may damage his lungs so that pneumonia and death follow. The anesthesiologist goes to work with the same equipment that he uses in surgery to maintain this patient's breathing and circulation until the drug is eliminated. We do the same for victims of drowning or accidental electrocution. This development is only five or six years...
...known as "the Deacon" won pennants over a 27-year career for the Pittsburgh Pirates (1925), the St. Louis Cardinals (1928) and the Cincinnati Reds (1939 and 1940) and a niche in the Hall of Fame as the only man to take three teams to the top; of pneumonia; in Bradenton...
...hermetically sealed bedroom at 44 rue Hamelin in Paris, the brilliant, untidy life of Valentin Marcel Proust, now 51, was drawing to a close For 17 years he had prophesied this event to his friends, who were amused. He had diagnosed the instrument pneumonia-before the doctors, even before it struck. Now he would have nothing to do with his foolish, fluttering rescuers. Weakly, vainly, he ordered his own brother, Dr. Robert Proust, from the room. After he died, those malevolent enemies of his life, sunlight and flowers, were admitted at last to his presence, along with a steady tide...
...classify that their very name is vague-PPLO (for pleuropneumonia-like organisms). But these days that name keeps popping up in lab reports from all over the world.* The baffling microbes have already been indicted for complicity in causing diseases ranging from puerperal (childbed) fever to the "viral pneumonia" that afflicts so many recruits in boot camps. Now they are even being suspected as a possible cause of cancer...
...Depression vainly waged a campaign to force unlimited currency upon the nation, thereafter remained a cantankerous critic of Administration policies from public power to Marshall aid, was finally defeated in the 1950 primary by Congressman Mike Monroney shortly after being exposed for trading in the cotton commodities market; of pneumonia; in Lawton, Okla...