THE CHANGING NATURE OF PNEUMONIA
Authors: H A REIMANN
Journal: Annals of Internal Medicine (1950)

Article1 November 1950THE CHANGING NATURE OF PNEUMONIAHOBART A. REIMANN, M.D., F.A.C.P.HOBART A. REIMANN, M.D., F.A.C.P.Search for more papers by this authorAuthor, Article, and Disclosure Informationhttps://doi.org/10.7326/0003-4819-33-5-1246 SectionsAboutPDF ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationsTrack CitationsPermissions ShareFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail ExcerptThe cure of many bacterial pneumonias with sulfonamide compounds and with antibiotics has led to an impression that the nature of pneumonia in general has changed greatly in the past decade. The new forms of therapy, especially of pneumococcal pneumonia, shorten the duration of disease, eliminate the causative agent from the sputum, and thereby lessen the incidence and duration of the carrier state. By so doing, it was hoped the spread of infection to others would be retarded and the incidence of pneumonia would decline. While the mortality rate has been reduced, it is by no means so sure that...Bibliography1. IsraelMitterlingFlippin HLRCHF: Pneumonia at the Philadelphia General Hospital, 1936-1946, New England J. Med. 238: 205-212 (Feb. 12) 1948. CrossrefMedlineGoogle Scholar2. deAndinodeBeradinis AMCT: Am. J. M. Sc. To be published. Google Scholar3. Watson MH: Two decades of lobar pneumonia: a study of the incidence and mortality rate of lobar pneumonia as seen in the Wellington Hospital during the past twenty years, New Zealand M. J. 48: 371 (Aug.) 1949. MedlineGoogle Scholar4. Thompson RT: Pneumococcus types, mortality, bacteremia and purulent complications in primary pneumococcus pneumonia at the Cincinnati General Hospital, 1936-1949 (Abst.), J. Lab. and Clin. Med. 34: 1757-1758 (Dec.) 1949. Google Scholar5. Ordman D: The incidence and control of pneumonia in the native labourers of the Witwatersrand Goldfields with special reference to the tropical natives, Proc. Transvaal Mine Officers Assn. 28: 75-83 (Mar.) 1949. Google Scholar6. Naglervan RooyenSturdy FPCEJH: An influenza virus epidemic at Victoria Island, N.W.T., Canada, Canad. J. Pub. Health 40: 457-465 (Nov.) 1949. MedlineGoogle Scholar7. DowlingRotman-KavkaHusseyHirsh HFGHHHL: Treatment of pneumococcic pneumonia with oral and intramuscular penicillin, Am. J. M. Sc. 213: 413-417, 1947. CrossrefMedlineGoogle Scholar8. Personal communication to the author. Google Scholar9. Anderson T: Pneumonia—a survey—past and present, Edinburgh M. J. 55: 705-720 (Dec) 1948. MedlineGoogle Scholar10. Reimann HA: An acute infection of the respiratory tract with atypical pneumonia. A disease entity probably caused by a filtrable virus, J. A. M. A. 111: 2377-2384 (Dec. 24) 1938. CrossrefGoogle Scholar11. Reimann HA: The viral pneumonias and pneumonias of probable viral origin, Medicine 26: 167-219 (May) 1947. CrossrefMedlineGoogle Scholar12. Francis T: Virus pneumonia, Canad. J. Pub. Health 35: 49-54 (Feb.) 1944. Google Scholar13. Reimann HA: Severe, sporadic "viral" pneumonias. Diagnostic and therapeutic problems, J. A. M. A. 144: 81-85 (Sept. 9) 1950. CrossrefMedlineGoogle Scholar This content is PDF only. To continue reading please click on the PDF icon. Author, Article, and Disclosure InformationAffiliations: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania*Presented at the Thirty-First Annual Session of the American College of Physicians, Boston, Mass., April 17, 1950.From the Jefferson Medical College and Hospital, Philadelphia. PreviousarticleNextarticle Advertisement FiguresReferencesRelatedDetails Metrics Cited byPneumococcus and the Brooklyn connectionCurrent Problems of the PneumoniasHOBART A. REIMANN, M.D., F.A.C.P.Die InfektionskrankheitenPOSTGRADUATE CONTINUATION COURSE Fitzsimons Army Hospital and University of Colorado School of MedicineCurrent Problems in The Management of PneumoniaThe Changing Nature of Pneumonia 1 November 1950Volume 33, Issue 5Page: 1246-1253KeywordsAntibioticsBacterial pneumoniaDeath ratesPneumoniaSputumSulfonamide ePublished: 1 December 2008 Issue Published: 1 November 1950 PDF downloadLoading ...