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Popularly known as "sinus," the disease should really be called "sinusitis," for it is an inflammation like bronchitis or laryngitis. One or more bony cavities may be invaded at a time. The infections may arise as a result of frequent colds, infected teeth, diseases such as pneumonia or influenza, too much swimming, may be aggravated by smoking or drinking. Said Dr. Grove: "Probably the most important single factor in the development of the chronic form of sinus disease ... is allergy." This includes hay fever, sensitivity to dust, feathers, foods...
Died. Simon Guggenheim, 73, head of the Guggenheim mining interests, of pneumonia; in Manhattan. With his wife he established the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation with a $3,000,000 gift in 1925 as a memorial to a dead son, gave it another...
...Hospital. His doctor called it "quite serious," added: "He's going to get over it." ∙∙ In Hollywood Jimmie Durante broke a rib playing the part of a moll in an Apache dance. ∙∙ Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis lay in a Petoskey, Mich, hospital after a pneumonia attack. ∙∙ Oldtime Opera Star Lucrezia Bori, 53, turned up in Manhattan with her arm in a sling; she had broken her elbow in a fall off a horse. A piece of elbow bone, left over when the doctor fixed it, kicked around the house for some time...
Every now and then one of us gets pneumonia or something and it looks as though a fast plane trip to New York for special treatment is advisable. So a friend, brother, or father, with his anxiety tempered by the hope that a New York specialist can help, runs to the plane office and is informed that all the seats are taken. Outside in the street he meets another rather dejected fellow who finds it necessary to be in New York within five days to close a business deal-no room for him either. Together they have...
Fifty U.S. soldiers in 100,000 had pneumonia in August, ten had measles, 35 mumps. Never before has the U.S. Army enjoyed such magnificent health. But two black facts were not included in the report issued by the War Department last week: 1) the venereal-disease rate in the Army is increasing; 2) the amount of mental disease in the Army is causing officers great concern...