Word: uremia
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...visitor not long ago with a resigned, gracious swish of her mourning veils. But last week everyone knew that Her Majesty hoped to be elected one of the three Regents of her grandson Boy-King Mihai, in succession to Regent George V. Buzdugan who died fortnight ago of uremia and inflammation of the lungs (TIME...
...been demonstrated in recent years that epilepsy is not a disease--it is a type of reaction of the human body to different abnormal stimulations: it has various causes. Thus the field of study must be broadened to include the convulsions of childhood, the eclampsia of pregnancy, uremia, asphyxia and other allied conditions. When these are all better understood there will be more chance of helping the chronic sufferer--the epileptic...
...Rodman Wanamaker, 65, son of the late John Wanamaker, urbane president of the John Wanamaker Stores, patron of art, aviation, exploration, director of many large corporations, president of the First Penny Savings Bank of Philadelphia, one of the most heavily insured men in the world ($7,500,000); of uremia; in Atlantic City, N. J. Two hundred prominent men of England, France, Japan, and the U. S. were invited to act as honorary pallbearers. Among the messages and cables received by the family was one from King George...
...dead. . . ." Death came last week to Mulai Yusef, Sultan of the Shereefian Empire (Morocco), 36th lineal descendant of Ali, cousin and brother-in-law of the Prophet Mohammed. The Sultan died in the 48th year of his life and the 16th of his reign from a violent attack of uremia (his kidneys could not strain off blood poisons), his demise taking place in the Imperial Palace at Fez, one of the four Imperial Capitals...
...results from a spasm of the victim's diaphragm, which suddenly descends and causes the lungs to suck in a draft of. air. The air strikes against the partially closed glottis to cause the characteristic ripping cough. Frequent attacks of hiccoughs may accompany certain nervous and gastric disorders, uremia, peritonitis, etc., and should have a doctor's attention...