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...offered by the Medical School every Sunday afternoon until March 23 will be given by Dr. W. D. Sutliff, assistant in Medicine at the Harvard Medical School. The subject of the address, which will be delivered at 4 o'clock at the Medical School, Longwood Avenue, Boston, will be "Pneumonia...
...Sutliff first will present the problem, which he describes as follows: "The newer studies of lobar pneumonia have demonstrated something of the chemical constitution of the bacterium known as the pneumococcus which causes the disease. The organism consists of a proteim center and a capsule or outer coat that contains a carbohydrate. Although the pneumococci are otherwise very similar they differ in the exact composition in their capsules. It is possible to differentiate promptly 22 fairly common varieties that may cause the disease, lobar pneumonia...
...symptoms of psittacosis resemble those of influenza, pneumonia and typhoid. In parrots the typhoid aspects predominate, in man the pneumonia. Man contracts the disease from infected birds, never so far as is known from infected...
Died. Charles Phelps Taft, 86, publisher of the Cincinnati Times-Star, half-brother of Chief Justice William Howard Taft; at Cincinnati; of pneumonia...
...very few U. S. people now die of smallpox. During the last week of November, when the U. S. Public Health Service last compiled statistics, there was not one smallpox death reported in the entire country. At the same period there were 676 deaths from influenza and pneumonia, much less than last year...