The Management of Pneumonia Patients (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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My chief reason for bringing so trite a subject before you is that the fatality of pneumonia and the frequency of the discussion of its treatment indicate that it is very far from being settled in the minds of the profession. Another reason is a desire to sum marize a personal experience extending over one third ofa century in city and country, private and hospital practice, and which represents a therapeutic evolution, a consideration ofwhich may contribute an humble stone to that therapeutic structure which can be reared only by the aggregation of individual ob servations. It is hoped that the discussion of this subject to-night may furnish some clue to a better management of patients suffering from this very prevalent and fatal malady. The most effective therapeusis may be evolved only from the most thor ough comprehension ofthe nature ofdisease. Whether stumbling upon it accidentally, as in the case of quinin for malarial diseases, or by a gradual evolu tion, as in the Brand bath for typhoid fever, or by a process of reasoning, as in the thyroid-gland treat ment for myxedema, our therapeutic achievements are in proportion to our mastery of the nature of the disease.

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