Because, as the article states, Caruso died of pleurisy, and that article was the source for that piece of information.--
Srleffler03:18, 15 March 2006 (UTC)reply
The Mike Nolan link (in Survivors) is to the 49ers coach's biography, despite the clarifying text suggesting otherwise. So who is Mike Nolan of Chicago?
Richaux10:39, 6 December 2006 (UTC)reply
Help!
Im 17, and i show some of these symptoms... am i going to die. Seriously! im not jjoking here... i've been having these pains for about a year. i smoke too.--
82.38.77.10819:58, 14 December 2006 (UTC)reply
Yes, eventually. We're all going to die. Pleurisy is not normally life-threatening; but can present complications if untreated. Stop smoking while you're still young, and go see a doctor for a professional opinion.
Tenmiles05:10, 24 February 2007 (UTC)reply
Pleurisy is a short-term illness, not a disease that lasts more than a couple of weeks. See a doctor if you have chest pains, but it's not pleurisy.
treatment depends on the underlying cause.... pneunmonia would need antibiotics but it is also caused by virus... these can not be treated, both cases you can take pain killers for the pain.
When I suffered from
Pleurisy brought on by
Pneumonia I received Clarithromycin tablets (250mg twice a day for 7 days) for the Pneumonia. For the pain I was given Co-Dydramal and Tramadol Hydrochloride, the affect of which would wear off some time before the next medication could be taken. The symptoms (the pain) cleared up after around 12 days.
Alls0rts10:46, 12 April 2007 (UTC)reply
Grand Duchess Marie Pavlovna of Russia was stricken with Pleurisy while she was working as a nurse on the Eastern Front during World War I. She stated in her biography that she spent weeks with her upper body painted with iodine and covered with cotton bandages. Of course, there were no antibiotics at that point in history.
Billy Connolly references pleurisy in a song entitled "If It Wasnae For Your Wellies" where he highlights the 'vital importance of wellies in Scottish culture':
"If it wasnae for your wellies, where would you be;
You'd be in a hospital or infirmary;
'Cause you would have a dose of the flu or even pleurisy;
If you didnae have your feet in your wellies"
LudBob 09:03, 24 April 2007 (UTC)
On Tom Waits' "Orphans" album, he includes a song called "On the Road," which was originally written by Jack Kerouac and included on a Kerouac spoken word/singing CD along with a Waits cover. One of the lines is "Don't worry about me, I'm about to die of pleurisy." Whether or not its notable is not my decision; I just want to throw it out there. —Preceding
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06:20, 18 October 2007 (UTC)reply
Billy Connolly stole that
From a New Zealand comedian, Fred Dagg "If It Wasn't For Your Gumboots"
Someone needs to get facts right
as to previous dagg adapted billy connely not the other way around
His 1976 single, Gumboots, was a hit, climbing to Number 6 on the charts. Gumboots was a modified version of Billy Connolly's If It Weren't For Your Wellies (itself an adaptation of the old song The Work Of The Weavers). —Preceding
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11:08, 8 October 2007 (UTC)reply
It is proposed that
Pleurisy be part of the trial of a new template; see the green strip at the top of
Pain where it has been in place for a couple of months. The purpose of this project is to encourage readers to edit, while equipping them with the basic tools. If you perceive a problem with this, or have any suggestions for improvement, please discuss at the project
talk page --
Anthonyhcole (
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09:37, 10 January 2011 (UTC).reply
Depending on its cause, pleurisy may be accompanied by other symptoms
The list of accompanying symptoms is so random that I'm tempted to delete it, leaving only the introductory sentence. What do you say? —
Tamfang (
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20:33, 10 February 2011 (UTC)reply
Trivia?
== References in literature ==
In The Glass Menagerie by
Tennessee Williams, reference is made to Laura Wingfield's bout with pleurosis during high school. At the time, Laura entertained timid but romantic feelings for Jim, who upon asking about her absence, mistakenly hears her say "blue roses" and carelessly adopts the moniker for her.
In the memoir Bells on Their Toes by Ernestine Gilbreth Carey and Frank Gilbreth Junior, the housekeeper Tom is convinced that any medical symptoms are symptoms of pleurisy
In
Eight Cousins by
Louisa Mae Alcott, the main protagonist Rose Campbell is diagnosed with pleurisy after waiting for her cousin Mac too long in the bitter cold.
There is a huge difference between vomiting blood and coughing up blood. Surely pleurisy won't cause vomiting blood, but it WILL cause coughing up blood. --
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Pleurisy is simple inflammation of the pleura. These details can go in the article about the people in question. With respect to this symptom none of them are notable and the condition appears to be discussed in passing.
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Notable cases
Gaius Marius, a Roman general and statesman, according to
Plutarch died of the disease in 86 BC.[1]
Charlemagne, known as the father of Europe for reuniting much of the Roman Empire, died in 814 of pleurisy.[3]
Catherine de' Medici, sometimes described as a "wife of one King and mother of three others", died from pleurisy in January 1589 at age 69.[4]
Benjamin Franklin developed fever and chest pain in 1790 at the age of 84. He spent ten days in bed having severe cough and difficulty breathing. He died after an abscess in his lungs burst from what is believed to be a case of pleurisy.[5]
Dominic Savio, Italian Saint, became ill and died in March 1857 at the age of 14 possibly from pleurisy.[9]
Tad Lincoln, the fourth and youngest son of Abraham Lincoln, had difficulty breathing when lying down and had to sleep sitting in a chair, and probably died of pleuristic attack, which was believed to be tubercular in origin, in Chicago in 1871 at age 18.[10]
Karl Marx, revolutionary and founder of the Marxist school of thought, died of a combination of the disease and bronchitis in 1883 at age 64, stateless and in poverty.
Enrico Caruso was struggling with pleurisy in the winter of 1920–1921, which contributed to his premature death.[14][15]
Eli Bowen, a circus performer known as "The Legless Wonder", or "The Legless Acrobat", died on 2 May 1924 in Coney Island of pleurisy days before a scheduled performance for The Dreamland Circus at age 79.[16]
Erik Satie, French composer, died from pleurisy at l'Hôpital St. Joseph on 1 July 1925.[17]
Rudolph Valentino, an international movie star, died in August 1926 from pleurisy at age 31.[18]
Alvin Kraenzlein was the first athlete to win four Olympic titles in a single event at the 1900 Summer Olympics in Paris. He suffered from bouts of pleurisy at the end of 1927 and died from a related complication early 1928 at the age of 51.[19]
Thomas Hardy, English novelist and poet, became ill with pleurisy and died of related causes in 1928 at age 87.[20]
Anna Pavlova, one of the world's most famous ballerinas, died unexpectedly of pleurisy at age 49 at the Hotel des Indes in The Hague in January 1931,[21]
Florenz Ziegfeld, Jr., a Broadway impresario, who was credited with staging several hit musicals including Show Boat (1927), died on 22 July 1932 of pleurisy after a lung infection at age 65.[22]
Kenji Miyazawa, a Japanese poet and writer, suffered from chronic pleurisy and died of pneumonia in September 1933 at age 37.[23]
Nino Manfredi, prominent actor in the
commedia all'italiana genre, was given three months to live for his bilateral pleurisy in 1937. He eventually survived and died at age 83 in 2004.[24]
Sir
Robert Chesebrough, inventor of
Vaseline, suffered pleurisy in his 50s and is said to have treated it by rubbing his whole body with petroleum jelly.[25]
Ringo Starr, former
Beatles drummer and solo artist, had chronic-pleurisy at age 13 in 1953.[27]
LeBron James, an American professional basketball player, was diagnosed with pleurisy after being admitted to the Cleveland Clinic in October 2005 with complaints about chest pain during practice.[28]
Ken Griffey Jr., an American professional baseball player, complained of soreness in the chest and, after a
chest x-ray, was diagnosed with pleurisy in April, 2007.[29]
Edmund Husserl, a German philosopher who established the school of
phenomenology died of a form of pleurisy on 27 April 1938.[30]
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^Einhard, The Life Of Charlemagne (University of Michigan Press, 5th edition, 1964) at p. 59
^Frieda, Leonie. Catherine De Medici: Renaissance Queen of France. New York: Fourth Estate, 2003, p. 381.
^Isaacson, Walter (2003). Benjamin Franklin : an American life. New York: Simon & Schuster.
^(Spanish) "Juan O'Donojú," Enciclopedia de México, v. 10. Mexico City, 1987.
^Jason, Philip K.; Graves, Mark A. (2001). Encyclopedia of American war literature. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press. p. 197.
^Gill, Stephen (1989). William Wordsworth: a Life. Oxford, England: Clarendon Press.
ISBN978-0-19-812828-1.
^Michele Molineris. Nuova vita di Domenico Savio. Castelnuovo Don Bosco, 1974, pp. 268–270.
^Emerson, Jason. Giant in the Shadows: The Life of Robert T. Lincoln. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 2012, P. 478.
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^Gandhi, Rajmohan (2006). Gandhi: the man, his people, and the empire. Berkeley, California: University of California Press. p. 174.
ISBN978-0-520-25570-8.