Word: pneumonia
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...Gompers, who has been ill for a week in New York with influenza and pneumonia, further complicated by uraemia, was reported by his physicians to be out of danger...
...bacteria, such as Pfeiffer's bacillus, are usually present in these puzzling respiratory diseases, and it is not clear that the new organism is the invariable causal agent of influenza, though it is believed that it produces conditions in the lung tissues which facilitate the onset of pneumonia and other complications. No specific vaccine, or serum has yet been devised to combat the bacterium, nor has the work been confirmed by other observers. We are still a long way, therefore, from scientific control of epidemic influenza...
...Ferdinand Seeger, noted throat specialist, died in New York of pneumonia at the age of 75, closing a career of remarkably able and disinterested service. He was known not only in this country but abroad, and had degrees from 32 medical schools, including his alma mater, Heidelberg. At one time he was decorated by the Czar of Russia for saving the life of one of the Russian Princes; at another, he refused the Democratic nomination for Mayor of New York in order to continue his medical work Although he treated many of the rich, he was noted in Manhattan...
John Henry Berry '25 of Watertown died early yesterday morning at his home, 75 Marion Road, of an acute attack of pneumonia. The funeral services will be held at his home at 2 o'clock this afternoon...
...subjects which have been announced are "The Causes of Pneumonia", January 15; "Causes of Heart Failure", February 5; "What Becomes of the Food We Eat", February 26; and "The Toxin-antitoxin Protection Against Diphtheria...