Word: pneumonia
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...Chicago, in May, Albert Katzen, 2% years old, caught pneumonia; he has required the constant administration of oxygen for more than a month. Last week, "he had an even chance" to live...
Died. Thomas E. Rush, 60, famed Tammany insurgent politician, one-time (1923-26) president of the National Democratic Club; from double pneumonia; in Manhattan...
...Volstead Act, does not permit whiskey to be sold in Indiana even on a doctor's prescription. Seeking the Governor's aid in amending the Wright Law, Mr. Gilliom last week wrote to Governor Jackson, reminded him that during Mrs. Jackson's recent attack of pneumonia, a doctor had prescribed whiskey for her. Mr. Gil-liom recalled that the Governor had consulted him as to the "immediate and lawful acquisition of a pint of whiskey," had been informed that whiskey could not be legally obtained...
...then [continued the Attorney General's letter] in precisely the same situation as my wife and I were in just a year earlier when whiskey was prescribed in the cases of three or four children who were near death from typhoid fever and pneumonia. Of one of them it may be said with certainty that he could not have recovered without the use of this medicine...
...next month's Machine Age Exposition in Manhattan-a little structure like a faery crystal palace strung with moon-shafts. In exchange for a minimum of privacy, which could readily be increased by movable screens, workers in actinic glass houses would get a maximum of insurance against rickets, pneumonia, tuberculosis. . . . Other exhibits prepared for the Exposition, to which engineers and architects are coming from the world's ends: diving suits, machine guns, ship models, mechanical production inspectors...