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...Lancet Dr. Sidney Campbell Dyke, consulting pathologist at the Royal Hospital at Wolverhampton, and his assistant, Dr. G. C. K. Reid, reported that tablets of a new sulfanilamide compound, M. & B. 693, short for 2-(para-aminobenzenesulphonamido) pyridine, had brought about a "speedy recovery" in eight cases of lobar pneumonia...
Died. John J. ("Bathhouse John") Coughlin. 78, since 1892 a Chicago alderman and political power; of pneumonia; in Chicago. A onetime Turkish bath rubber. Bathhouse John saved his tips, opened an establishment of his own. managed to get a grip on the vote of the First Ward, never lost it. A master of personal publicity, he was equally famed for rhymed doggerel (which Chicago newshawks ghosted for him), bright waistcoats, a string of race horses which lost consistently...
...During the first six months of 1938, he added, the death rate was 10.8 per 1,000 a figure surpassed only by the 10.7 rate for the entire year of 1933. Some 60% of the total 1938 decline was due to the remarkably small death toll of pneumonia and influenza last winter. Other factors pulling down the 1938 death rate: 1) low maternal mortality, which now amounts to 4.4 per 1,000 live births, 15% less than 1937; 2) lower incidence of tuberculosis, which shows signs of declining for the first time to less than five deaths...
...Edward Mellanby, 54-year-old secretary of Britain's Medical Research Council, is famed for his wit, his wife Lady May (Britain's outstanding authority on tooth decay) and his work on nutrition and pneumonia. In The Lancet last week, Sir Edward discussed "The State and Medical Research," told of the "first recorded experiment in medical science by a king himself," an experiment remarkably similar in technique to work done by scientists on guinea pigs today. Said Sir Edward: "Frederick the Second. Emperor of the Romans, King of Sicily and Jerusalem, known as Stupor Mundi, the Wonder...
...body during the entire period of unconsciousness . . . regardless of the amount of immunity possessed by the body. . . . They may easily become so numerous that inflammation developing after recovery of consciousness may be unable to overcome them." Whether the popular habit of killing a cold with whiskey contributes to the pneumonia toll he did not say. Nor did he imply that the phrase "alcoholic intoxication" meant anything less than "dead drunk...