Word: pneumonia
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Dates: during 1876-1876
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...other disadvantages in point of health. A pleurisy which he contracted last November affected his lungs so seriously that a change of climate became necessary, and, though extremely unwilling that his studies should be interrupted, he had consented to go to Europe for a few months. But a catarrhal pneumonia supervened upon other troubles, his strength declined rapidly, and he died at Cambridge on March 3, the day preceding that on which he was to sail...