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Died. Mrs. Alfred Emanuel Smith, 65, wife of the Empire State's brown-derbied ex-Governor and Democratic Presidential nominee (1928); of virus pneumonia; in Manhattan...
...sufferers (many of them dying), the good news came none too soon. Penicillin (sometimes rhymes with villain, sometimes with whistle in) is the best treatment for all staphylococcic infections, all hemolytic streptococcic infections, clostridia infections, pneumococcic infections (of the lining of skull, spinal cord, lung and heart surfaces), pneumococcic pneumonia that sulfa drugs will not cure, all gonococcic infections (including all gonorrhea that sulfa drugs will not cure). Diseases against which penicillin is effective but not fully tested: syphilis, actinomycosis, bacterial endocarditis...
Autopsy showed crystals in the young man's kidneys (commonest way a sulfa drug kills), damaged liver and heart, inflamed intestines, slight pneumonia.* Medical experts at the inquest laid most sulfa deaths to self-dosage. The drugs, they said, should be dispensed as carefully as strychnine or arsenic...
Died. William Henry Cardinal O'Connell, 84, longtime Archbishop of Boston; of pneumonia; in Boston...
...know anything about art, you don't read poetry, you don't care for music; what are you interested in?" Said he: "Currency." He was then Lord President of the Council, No. 2 man in Winston Churchill's War Cabinet, and had put his clammy, pneumonia-breeding Anderson bomb shelters into nearly every Briton's backyard. He moved to the Exchequer after Sir Kingsley Wood died...