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REMARKS UPON THE PNEUMOTOXIN

1906; BMJ; Volume: 2; Issue: 2387 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1136/bmj.2.2387.776

0959-8138

Allan Macfadyen,

Pleural and Pulmonary Diseases

THE pneumococcus is an important agent in the produc- tion of disease in the human subject.It is the most frequent cause of acate lobar pneumonia, having been found in about 80 to 90 per cent. of the cases examined.The organism likewise invades the pleura and the blood, and appears in the bile, urine, milk, etc., whilst pneumococcal infections outside the respiratory tract are constantly met with-for example, in meningitis, peri- tonitis, pericarditis, endocarditis, otitis, conjunctivitis, etc.The organism is also one of the exciting causes in the forms of acute catarrh clinically grouped as influenza."The pneumococci, in the variety of morbid conditions they are capable of producing, resemble a kindred group of micro-organisms-the streptococci.