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Died. U. S. Representative John Francis Quayle, 63, Democrat, of the 7th New York Congressional District; of heart failure resulting from pneumonia and nephritis; in Brooklyn...
Died. Gustave Maurice Braune, 58, dean (since 1922) of the School of Engineering of the University of North Carolina, onetime bridge designer for New York State barge canal, onetime director of the American Society of Civil Engineers; of pneumonia; in Chapel Hill...
Barbara Munro Schurman, 65, relict of the late Jacob Gould Schurman, onetime (1892-1920) president of Cornell University, onetime (1925-29) Ambassador to Germany; of pneumonia; in Bedford...
Since Professor Yandell Henderson of Yale, by his studies on the biochemistry of respiration and the physiology of circulation, indicated the way, doctors have been giving their failing pneumonia patients extra oxygen to breathe. Enough oxygen then can get through the plugged air spaces at each gasp to sustain the dying patient for two, three minutes. Consequently he need not strain to breathe at the normal rate (16 to 20 times a minute...
...normal breathing, carbon dioxide taken into the lungs from the blood helps (via the brain) to stimulate the lungs to expand and contract. Based on this physiological fact is the principle of giving cases of electrical shock, and now (experimentally) pneumonia cases, a little lung-stimulating carbon dioxide with the excess of pure oxygen for the blood...