Word: toxemia
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Died. Major Thomas Halbert Russell, 53, president of Staunton Military Academy, Staunton, Va.; when he flumped from a third-story window of Lankenau Hospital; in Philadelphia, Pa. Afflicted with anemia, toxemia and low blood pressure, he had been hospitalized for ten days...
Died. Charles Ashby Penn, 62, vice president and director of American Tobacco Co. (Lucky Strike) and American Cigar Co., direct descendant of John, brother of William Penn; of gastrointestinal toxemia; in Manhattan...
Three months ago Undersecretary of State Joseph Potter Cotton, No. i man in the Hoover sub-Cabinet, entered Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore for treat-ment of a nervous ailment. In January surgeons removed a tumor from his spine. Fortnight later a general toxemia developed. His right eye was cut out. A third operation opened his leg to relieve the infection. He failed to improve. One night last week, Secretary of State Stimson was informed that Mr. Cotton could not live much longer. He sped from Washington to Baltimore, spent a midnight half-hour at the bedside of his good...
...epidemic typhus is very high, on the average 100 in every 500 cases. In filthy crowded districts, like Serbia during the first years of the War, the rate goes to 300 out of every 500 cases. Victims develop high fever (104 degrees & 105 degrees), chills, vomiting, headache, delirium, exhaustion, toxemia, death...
...fact is exactly this. The lower end of the intestine is of a size that requires emptying every six hours, but by habit we retain its contents 24 hours. The results, as I say, are ulcers and cancer. The products of intestinal toxemia are absorbed and we have filthy blood, and there are a host of resulting ailments. This poisoning causes enlargement of the pituitary gland, the thyroid gland, and, I think, the adrenals. The organs degenerate...