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Worst Ailment, worse than pneumonia or cancer, in that it handicaps or kills more people yearly, is the group of ailments called heart disease. William Harvey (1578-1657), whose memory the post graduate students honored last week by viewing a cinema version of monumental discovery, first demonstrated the circulation of the blood.* The heart pumps blood into the arteries normally 72 times a minute. The blood pulsates through the arteries to tiny arterioles, whence it seeps into capillaries. From the capillaries the blood seeps into minute venules, then flows through the veins back to the heart...
Sugar-coated Hearts. The heart itself is contained in a double sack, or pericardium. The inner sack fits snugly against the heart. The outer sack is just big enough to let the heart expand comfortably. Often enough to concern doctors the sacks become inflamed, from pneumonia, rheumatic fever and other infectious diseases. The sacks may stick together. Or the outer sack may adhere to the inside of the chest wall or to the upper side of the diaphragm. Or fibrous bands may develop and constrict the heart. During early pericardiac inflammation, Dr. Lewis Atterbury Conner of Cornell University pumps...
Often it is difficult to distinguish the pains of appendicitis from those of tuberculosis, pneumonia or pleurisy. Actinomycosis, a fungus infection which causes abscesses, may simulate appendicitis. A mistake in diagnosis may result from the presence of colic of the bile or of the kidneys, inflammation of the kidneys, stricture of the right ureter (through which the right kidney drains into the bladder). Diseases of women's sexual apparatus may act like appendicitis. Especially confusing in this respect is menstrual colic, from which many a flabby and nervous woman suffers. And infections of the intestines may spread...
Died. Mrs. Thomas Power O'Connor, relict of famed Irish Parliamentarian "Tay Pay" O'Connor; of pneumonia; in London. Daughter of a Texas judge, she first married F. G. Howard of Washington, by whom she had a son. Author of several books, she wrote a play, A Lady from Texas, in which she played the leading role in London...
Died. Leonard Wood, 39, son of the late Major General Leonard Wood, of ''lobar pneumonia"; at Bellevue Hospital, Manhattan. His name on oil stock prospectuses without the Jr. led to investigation and interruption of his business activities six years...