Word: pneumonia
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...Billings patients, all but two were cured of their ulcers. One of the failures died of bronchial pneumonia after the operation; the other, a neurotic, thought it did not help...
...Peter Smith now had pneumonia, was running the normally fatal temperature of 108. Once again the doctors gave him up. Once again the Sisters of the Sacred Heart prayed all night for Mother Cabrini's intercession. Once again morning found the child completely cured. Last week, while the bells of Rome rang out and the Holy Father said High Mass in honor of the first U.S. saint, 25-year-old Peter Smith, now a veteran of the Pacific war and a candidate for the priesthood, retired with his mother to the Catskills to meditate on St. Frances Xavier Cabrini...
...Landsberg, in the A.M.A. Journal. Dr. Freireich, a Long Island county toxicologist, directed the treatments which revived 19 would-be suicides with massive intravenous injections of benzedrine. (The reviving dose of benzedrine would be equally poisonous to any but a thoroughly doped victim.) Benzedrine, he also found, prevents the pneumonia which frequently follows an unsuccessful barbiturate poisoning...
Scared Girl, Crazy World. Wesley gets his life direction (to find "his girl") while unconscious with pneumonia. But all the poor boy can find are careless loves. Like all Saroyan's "little people," he dreams of many "higher things," including a son as yet unconceived. Finally, in London, he finds "his girl"-an epitome of those vacant people who tinkle brightly through Saroyan stories like Christmas-tree bells...
...Patterson's 108-acre estate overlooking the Hudson at Ossining, N.Y. The party was not like the old days. The grave-eyed host lay in his sickbed upstairs, suffering from the liver disorder that took his life this week. He had never fully recovered from a pneumonia attack that laid him low last November...