Word: pneumonia
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...mixture of carbon dioxide and oxygen which often will resuscitate persons shocked by electricity, may also be helpful to pneumonia patients, announced New York Edison System Electric Light Co. last week. Dr. John Jay Wittmer, the company's medical chief, used the mixture (7% carbon dioxide, 93% oxygen) on 127 pneumonia cases. Of these 42 were definitely beyond recovery. Of the remaining 85, 70 were cured, 15 died. This relative success, thought the company, warranted informing the medical profession, which might experiment more widely...
...pneumonia, exudates (blood, pus, serum, germs) accumulate in the minute air chambers of the lungs. The lungs lose their sponginess, resemble the liver. In addition, areas of these air cells become devitalized, collapse. All this prevents an adequate amount of oxygen getting into the blood, and waste carbon dioxide and toxins escaping from the blood. The lungs labor to breathe until they and the poisoned heart become exhausted...
...first time since he nearly died of pneumonia two years ago, George V last week opened Parliament. Bareheaded the venerable monarch drove with Queen Mary from Buckingham Palace to the House of Lords, arrived snuffling. Repeatedly during the majestic procedure His Majesty cleared his throat as though it tickled. Once he broke a sentence in the middle to cough...
...been estimated that directly or in directly . . . [malaria] is responsible for more than half of the deaths of the human race."?Professor Herbert Harold Waite of the University of Nebraska, in his Disease Prevention. However, prime U. S. killers are heart disease, cancer, pneumonia...
Died. Joseph Boyer, 82, board chairman of Burroughs Adding Machine Co inventor of the pneumatic hammer, a drill, railway speed recorder; of pneumonia; in Detroit, Mich...