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...research completed just in time for cheering at the dedicatory exercises last week was a new derivative of quinine which relieves pneumonia. While Mr. Mellon listened attentively, Dr. William Watt Graham MacLachlan, physician-in-chief of Pittsburgh's Mercy Hospital where the stuff was given to patients last year, reported that the use of hydroxy-ethyl-apocupreine cut his pneumonia death rate in half. Only 27% of his patients died as compared with the 45% Pittsburgh mortality rate. It is given like quinine in capsules by mouth...
Died. Cornelius Kingsley Garrison Billings. 75, Chicago & Manhattan capitalist and famed trotting-horse breeder (Uhlan, Lou Dillon, The Harvester, Major Delmar); of pneumonia; at "Billings Park," near Santa Barbara, Calif. At 18 he entered Peoples Gas Light & Coke Co., succeeded his father as president in 1887, became board chairman of Union Carbide & Carbon Co. in 1929; Turfman Billings was celebrated for his "horseback" parties at Manhattan's Sherry's. Guests rode their horses into the elevators, ascended to the dining room while mounted, were served by liveried waiters while their horses munched oats...
...Pneumonia Treatment. By hypodermic injection of a substance called deutero-proteose. Dr. Clyde Brook of New Orleans, reduced his death rate in both lobar and bronchopneumonia...
...York Legislature last week appropriated $400,000 to buy a year's supply of pneumonia serum to be given away to sick citizens who do not live in New York City. The city is expected to spend $600,000 for its inhabitants during the next year...
Boston Beriberi. In Boston Drs. Soma Weiss & Robert W. Wilkins found numerous "alcoholics, diabetics, food cranks and pregnant women" who suffered from "rapid heart rate, enlarged heart, shortness of breath, attacks of asthma." Their skins were usually warm and red. These people were "especially prone to develop broncho-pneumonia." They suffered, the Boston doctors decided with astonishment, from beriberi, a disease due to malnutrition. It is common in the Orient, especially in Java, had never before been recognized in the U. S. Cure: vitamin...