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...where the great novelist died 35 years ago. After a last bitter quarrel with his wife, Tolstoy had stormed from his Yasnaya Polyana home, entrained for Moscow to begin life anew at 82; on the train he was seized with chills and fever, got off at Astapovo, succumbed to pneumonia a week later...
...Unofficial scientists guessed at: 1) continued radioactivity in the bombed area, 2) mysterious rays of concentrated neutrons, 3) "concussion pneumonia...
...Penicillin, given by injection or by mouth, is effective against pneumococcus pneumonia, streptococcus infections (e.g., childbed fever), pneumococcus and meningococcus meningitis. Penicillin is usually preferred to sulfa drugs in these diseases, since it is more powerful, and less likely than sulfa to cause complications...
Constantly hungry on a daily ration (for the whole group) of one peck of meal from the ship's stores, always cold from exposure, many of them developed scurvy and pneumonia. The Pilgrims, claims Author Willison, blandly ignored the ship's doctor, Giles Heale. For medical advice they depended solely on one of their own members, Deacon Samuel Fuller. Result: almost every day somebody died. When at last the Mayflower sailed back to England, the harvest came in, and a gift of corn from Squanto increased the group ration by another peck of fresh meal. But the seven...
...enough for John Muir. Then he set out alone into the Canadian wilderness, "not as a mere sport . . . but to find the Law that governs the relations subsisting between human beings and nature." He never found the Law, but he never stopped searching. Until 1914, when he died of pneumonia at 76, John Muir traveled up & down America's wonderful wilderness, later toured the whole outdoor world. Watching him grow restless after seven years in the confines of civilization, his understanding wife packed him off again to his mountain wanderings. His books & magazine articles won him admirers among...