Download or read book The American Journal of the Medical Sciences, 1921, Vol. 161 (Classic Reprint) written by George Morris Piersol and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-01-25 with total page 954 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The American Journal of the Medical Sciences, 1921, Vol. 161 Reference to any standard text Will lead to the inference that primary bronchopneumonia in adults is not a common disease. That it is the usual type of pneumonia in children is accepted as well as that terminal pneumonias are commonly of the catarrhal variety. But that bronchopneumonia is at all confined to the extremes 'of life, childhood and old age is, I believe, incorrect. It will be the purpose of this paper to present evidence indicating the frequency of this type of pneumonia, to discuss the several pathologic and clinical pictures that may be grouped under the generic heading of broncho or lobular pneumonia and their more serious compli cations. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.