Word: pneumonia
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...last week there filed up the icy front steps of that house a procession of famed citizens. At 93 Mr. Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes lay desperately ill of pneumonia. To his solemn-faced physicians, nurses and friends, Mr. Justice Holmes growled: "It's a lot of damned foolery...
Died. Roger Harrington Bullard, 50, architect; of pneumonia; in Plandome, N. Y. He designed country clubs and socialite country houses, won a gold medal in 1933 in a Better Homes in America competition, with a 1½-story cottage which a jury found "admirable, compact, convenient, well lighted and well aired." He planned the model ''America's Little House" which currently stands in Manhattan at the corner of Park Avenue and 39th Street...
...During its trip to San Francisco and back the Panama-Pacific Liner Pennsylvania logged the following incidents: Her surgeon died of a stroke. The engine-room storekeeper died of pneumonia. Both were buried at sea. Brooding because the boatswain had taken his bedroom slippers, the ship's lookout fell 40 ft. from the crow's nest, arose unharmed. A 40-ft. whale became so firmly impaled on the Pennsylvania's bow that the captain had to put his ship astern to dislodge it. The liner also rushed to the aid of a freighter, took off a wiper...
Died. Dr. Lyon Gardiner Tyler, 81, son of the tenth President of the U. S.; of pneumonia; in Charles City County...
...last week Professor Lloyd Derr Felton of Harvard went to Johns Hopkins Medical School, where once he studied and taught, to say that a pneumonia vaccine which he invented seemed to be valid. He had given the vaccine to 3,000 people, including himself. Not one had developed pneumonia, although in the ordinary course of life ten or a dozen of them should have contracted the disease...