Word: pneumoniae
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Early ambulation ("an ugly phrase for a beautiful idea") means that patients are out of bed as soon as possible, perhaps one or two days after the operation. Result: less pneumonia, better healing of muscles, fewer "sick-man complexes"; patients can relieve bowels and bladder normally, eat better, sleep better, feel better...
Died. Josephus Daniels, 85, "Tar Heel Editor," World War I Secretary of the Navy (his Assistant Secretary: young Franklin D. Roosevelt), onetime (1933-41) U.S. Ambassador to Mexico; of pneumonia; in Raleigh, N.C. Secretary Daniels disturbed Navy traditionalists, outlawed liquor on Navy vessels (a, rule still in force), took pride in the Navy's record of transporting all U.S. troops to Europe without a casualty. A professional journalist from the age of 18 (he became editor of the Raleigh News and Observer in 1894), string-tied Editor Daniels was a folksy foe of Republicans, booze and vested interests, championed...
...Sudan, whose sandy hair is thinning now, tells about the February day he drove through the snow until even his Model-T stuck, then walked ten miles to a rancher dying of pneumonia. On the way he lost his fountain pen. The next spring a road crew brought him the pen and explained: "This must be yours, Doc. Nobody else would have been up in that Williams Fork country in the winter...
Died. Albert Carl Grzesinski, 68, German democrat, Minister of the Interior (1926-30) for the Weimar Republic; of pneumonia; in Queens, N.Y. In 1931, as Berlin's Police President, he tried to gag Rabble-Rouser Hitler, ordered him deported as an undesirable alien, but Chancellor Heinrich Brüning did not sign the order, and a year later the Nazis hounded Grzesinski out of the country...
With Preston's defensive partner Charlie Coulter out until after Christmas with virus pneumonia, this weakens the Crimson considerably as an ice threat, and leaves Chase's plans in an uncertain state...