Word: pneumonia
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...conditioning and treat their patients for all manner of ailments, sometimes working on them as they stand, sometimes casting them (i.e., throwing them down) to make them take their medicine. When horses arrive at the depots they often fall sick of what oldsters call "shipping cold" (sometimes resulting in pneumonia). This cured, they go into training, come out gentled, trained to harness, pack or saddle, ready for assignment to a service outfit...
...onetime Secretary of the Interior Albert Bacon Fall lay in an Albuquerque hospital recovering from pneumonia, the famed 1,000,000-acre Three Rivers Ranch in New Mexico, on which Secretary Fall said he spent the $100,000 bribe which he took from Oilman Edward L. Doheny in the Teapot Dome scandal, was sold for a dude ranch...
...knives. Modern operating tables cost at least $200, but Chinese doctors now build useful tables out of bamboo for ten cents. Only the most essential drugs are used, and often surgeons must operate without anesthetics. But they try to practice 1941 medicine. At present they are using sulfapyridine for pneumonia, will soon experiment with sulfathiazole for bubonic plague, may try brand-new sulfaguanidine for dysentery. They are planning to establish blood banks and to start manufacture of vitamins...
Died. Police Inspector Matthew J. Mc-Grath, 64, massive, Tipperary-born New York City cop who competed for the U. S. in four Olympics (1908-12-20-24), set an American record in 1911 for the 56-pound weight (40 ft., 6⅜ in.) that still stands; of pneumonia; in Manhattan...
Died. Dr. George Edgar Vincent, 76, third president of the University of Minnesota (1911-17), former president of the Rockefeller Foundation (1917-29), president and honorary president of Chautauqua (which his father founded) from 1907 to 1937; of pneumonia; in Manhattan...