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Some months ago, one Miss Margaret L. Johnstone of Glen Ridge, N. J., U. S. A., lay abed in Venice, stricken with typhoid. An Italian nurse restored her to health; and, for her services, Miss Johnstone presented to her, in addition to her ordinary fees, a necklace bought at an important jewelry shop. Correspondence between nurse and former patient brought out the fact that the jewelers had substituted a cheap necklace for the one purchased by Miss Johnstone; the latter, naturally becoming angry, wrote to the shop. Then, apparently, overcome by vexation, she wrote also to Mussolini-the Mussolini whose...
When Woodrow Wilson lay stricken in the White House, among other names appended to the official bulletins issued, the public came to know that of Edward R. Stitt, Rear Admiral, Surgeon General of the U. S. Navy. Last week, Doctor-Admiral Stitt addressed the Medical Society of the District of Columbia. He had in mind the convention, next spring, of the Congress on Internal Medicine, when he said: "I look to this society of physicians to keep us from drifting into the methods of Egyptians, of whom it is stated: 'Medicine is practiced among them on a plan...
...Churchill Downs. At about the time of the fourth race, he complained of feeling ill and started to leave. Before he could go far, the illness overcame him. He was taken to the emergency hospital. There, suddenly, peacefully, he died before members of his family could reach him, stricken while he was still actively enjoying the life he loved...
...must to all men, Death came to James Berwick Forgan, in the 73rd year of his life and the 24th of his career as the outstanding figure of the Chicago banking fraternity. Stricken at his desk with heart disease, he was taken to the Presbyterian Hospital, where a transfusion of his son's blood (James B. Forgan, Jr.) rallied him momentarily but was ultimately unsuccessful in saving his life. He died sur rounded by his family, after singing favorite hymns with his pastor and saying : "I have put up the best fight I could." Forgan...
...tightly quarantined. None were allowed passage through its streets, even in automobiles. None were allowed egress from the district except a few industrial workers with special permits. Food was delivered but no garbage or milk containers taken out. The dead were burnt at once. Those ministering to the pestilence-stricken went in and out wearing a sterilized habit, their faces masked. Doctors stated that a pneumonic rather than a bubonic germ was responsible for the disease, but awaited a final diagnosis. Deaths, which numbered 21 in 15 days, went on mounting...