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Died. Rachel Lyman Field, 47, best-selling novelist (All This, and Heaven Too); of pneumonia after an operation; in Los Angeles. She had written professionally for 14 years before her sensational success in 1938 with All This...
...diagnose chest diseases, doctors listen for rattling sounds which Laënnec called râles. Patients with early or late pneumonia have a crackling sound like hair being rubbed through the fingers. Tuberculosis can sometimes be spotted early in its course by a similar sound, which may later change to a clear, metallic ring...
...staff have been delving into the medical history of George Washington. Their research, published last week in the clinic's Proceedings, shows that, in the course of his 67-year life, Washington suffered from: measles, diphtheria, smallpox, an "infectious disease of uncertain nature," dysentery, malaria, rheumatism, pneumonia, a carbuncle, influenza, conjunctivitis, recurrent headaches, bad eyesight, a tremor of the hands, decaying teeth...
...here & there, in back pages of the newspapers, little items said eloquently that the U.S. was still the U.S. In Colorado a 16-year-old lad braved frozen hands and feet to help haul a toboggan eight miles through snowdrifts on an 8,000-ft. mountain, rescue a pneumonia-stricken rancher. A lad crippled by two bone operations, tuberculosis of the hip, pneumonia, ptomaine poisoning, appendicitis, graduated at the head of his Manhattan high-school class...
Died. Alice Wilson Page, 84, widow of Walter Hines Page, World War I Ambassador to the Court of St. James's; of pneumonia; in Manhattan. Two of her sons, Frank C. and Arthur W., are vice presidents, respectively...