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...Montreal press and a tolerant article in Look won Liefmann a rich market for his concoction on both sides of the border; many Americans traveled to Canada to obtain Liefcort. One U.S. woman suffered such severe internal bleeding after taking Liefcort that she had to have an operation; pneumonia developed as a complication, and she died. Canadian arthritis experts report that men taking Liefcort have developed enlarged breasts, while women have grown beards. In both sexes there is a danger that peptic ulcers will start to bleed...
...lower spine; Eleanor Roosevelt, 77, whose annual week-long checkup at a Manhattan hospital was extended for treatment of an infectious lung condition; Edward R. Murrow, 54, chain-smoking chief of the U.S. Information Agency, in a U.S. Army hospital in Teheran, Iran, with a "mild" case of pneumonia; Otto E. Passman, 62. congressional foe of foreign aid. who tripped over some plastic clothing bags in his Washington office and broke his left arm in four places...
...schoolboy, he developed double pneumonia and nearly died, weakened by brutal beatings from his schoolmaster. At 18, falling from a bridge, Churchill ruptured a kidney and was unconscious for three days; six years later, he dislocated his shoulder falling down a flight of stairs in India...
...that smoking is a basic cause of either high blood pressure or coronary artery disease. But along with other A.M.A. panelists, they agreed that smoking almost certainly makes such conditions worse, and they agreed that the danger of serious illness or death from such infectious lung diseases as influenza, pneumonia and tuberculosis is increased if the lungs have been damaged by smoke...
...talking thesaurus of big-top ballyhoo to whom clowns were not clowns but rather "red-nosed, chalk-faced worshipers of the bluebird of happiness." who variously trumpeted the thrills of the Gentry. Sells-Floto, Ringling Brothers-Barnum & Bailey, and Clyde Beatty-Cole Brothers circuses for half a century; of pneumonia; in Providence...