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Died. Mrs. Ethel Kissam Train, wife of Arthur C. Train, the novelist, of bronchial pneumonia, in Manhattan...
Died. George J. Gould, 59, capitalist and son of Jay Gould, the railroad magnate, of pneumonia, at Mentone, France...
...experts of the Chemical Warfare Service, experimenting at Edgewood Arsenal, near Baltimore, have had striking results with chlorine in very dilute quantities as a preventive of influenza, pneumonia and common colds. By accident it was discovered that workers in departments where chlorine was made were immune to these diseases, although elsewhere 10 to 20% of the arsenal workers were infected. A slight leakage of the gas was believed to be the cause of the discovery...
Died. John W. Rainey, 42, Democrat, Congressman from the 4th Illinois district (Chicago), of pneumonia. He had the shortest biography in the Congressional Directory -just his name-not even his political party...
Chlorine was found to be a preventative for pneumonia and influenza when it was noticed that men working in the army laboratory where there was a trace of chlorine in the air seemed immune from the prevalent epidemic of those diseases. Lewisite has been used in direct experiment with good results upon persons inflicted with locomotor ataxia. The much abused guinea pig was cured of a severe attack of tuberculosis by inhaling a very small quantity of the burning mustard...