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Early in this century Sir William Osier, patron saint of modern medicine, discovered that nearly 53% of pneumonia fatalities occurred among drunkards. Two years ago young Dr. Kenneth LeRoy Pickrell of Johns Hopkins Hospital, stimulated by Osier's statistics, set out to learn the exact manner in which alcohol lowered resistance. Last week, after a score of different experiments on 175 rabbits, he reported in the Johns Hopkins Hospital Bulletin the first satisfactory explanation for this important pathological phenomenon...
...Washington last week highdomed SEC Commissioner Jerome Frank lay in bed suffering with pneumonia. But even as he did so he added a chapter to depression economic philosophy. Before a meeting of the National Association of Securities Commissioners in Kansas City, husky SEC Lawyer Chester Lane read a speech that Commissioner Frank had written, a speech that excited comment in financial circles, drew even an approving nod from the arch-Republican New York Herald Tribune...
Died. Homer D. Boughner, 89, football pioneer; of pneumonia; in Denver, Colo. In the first intercollegiate football game ever played in the U.S., Princeton v. Rutgers in 1869, Mr. Boughner was one of the Princeton team of 25. Rutgers...
They are a disgrace." At the same time enthusiasm marked the 40th convention of the Society of American Bacteriologists in San Francisco. For 38-year-old Dr. Walther Frederick Goebel of the Rockefeller Institute Hospital announced that he had produced artificially a successful pneumonia antigen. (An antigen is a substance which stimulates the organism to produce antibodies ; a serum is a blood constituent in which antibodies have already been produced.) The Goebel antigen is a combination of egg white and an acid obtained by complicated treatment of cellulose products (such as sawdust, straw or wood fibres) with water...
...main narrative is much simpler-the story of six seamen aboard a tramp schooner bound from Norway to Newfoundland, with a couple of months ashore in Iceland, where the captain is laid up with pneumonia...