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...hospital room in little Lafayette, Ala. one day last week a fleshy, feverish old man lay still in the grip of lobar pneumonia. Having passed through several days of delirium, he did not know what day it was and he was too tired to ask. That was just as well. It was Election Day, and no one wanted to tell J. Thomas Heflin that at 68 he had again lost his chance to get back into the U. S. Senate...
...nations signed the Kellogg-Briand pact, renouncing war as a means of settling international disputes. Next year, Frank Billings Kellogg was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for sponsoring it. Last week, in St. Paul, Statesman Kellogg, 81, died of pneumonia (see p. 41). His death and that of onetime Secretary of War Newton D. Baker coincided ironically with his country's gravest international crisis since 1917, a crisis caused by the war between China and Japan upon which the only discernible influence of the Kellogg Pact was the fact that both sides had politely refrained from declaring...
...weight of the body impedes breathing.'' 3) "Vital organs are crushed by the great weight." 4) "The unaccustomed warmth, especially if there is direct insolation [exposure to sun] induces heat stroke." 5) "The unaccustomed temperature interval between night and day gives rise to internal chills and probably pneumonia." 6) "The whales do not die because they are stranded; they are stranded because they are dying...
Died. Frank Billings Kellogg, 81, Ambassador to the Court of St. James (1924), Secretary of State under President Coolidge, co-author of the Kellogg-Briand Peace Pact; of pneumonia; in St. Paul, Minn...
This new drug has been found to be a specific cure for blood poisoning and gonorrhea, and a powerful remedy for pneumonia and meningitis. It is also a distressing poison, sometimes causing, if not taken with proper precautions, itching rashes, jaundice, agranulocytosis (lack of white blood corpuscles, which the system needs to fight off infection) and cyanosis. Cyanosis is due to the sulfur of the sulfanilamide combining with the hemoglobin of red blood corpuscles. This prevents the red corpuscles from carrying oxygen through the system and as the result, the body turns blue. Such catastrophes may happen if a patient...