Acute lobar pneumonia : a pathological and clinical study of 120 consecutive cases subjected to port-mortem examination / by John Lindsay Steven, M.D., Physician and Lecturer on Clinical Medicine, Glasgow Royal Infirmary.
- Steven, John Lindsay, 1859-1909.
- Date:
- [1901]
Licence: In copyright
Credit: Acute lobar pneumonia : a pathological and clinical study of 120 consecutive cases subjected to port-mortem examination / by John Lindsay Steven, M.D., Physician and Lecturer on Clinical Medicine, Glasgow Royal Infirmary. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![34£ pneumonia. The following table gives at a glance the con- dition in 62 cases in which a record was kept: Kidneys, healthy, - - - - - 16 eases. Cloudy swelling, ------ 24 ,, Tabular nephritis, ------ 9 Interstitial nephritis, - - - - - 12 ,, Calculus, ] case. G2 cases. The occurrence of acute lobar pneumonia in the course of chronic Bright’s disease is well known, and in our present series of cases we find that this association was noted to have been present at least 21 times. The Brain.—Unfortunately the head was only examined 12 times, with the following results : Brain, healthy, 5 cases. Cerebral softening, ------ 2 Fracture of skull, ------ 1 case. Acute meningitis, 4 cases. It is interesting to note that in this relatively small number of head examinations acute meningitis was discovered four times, as it is well known, both clinically and pathologically, to be a common complication of acute lobar pneumonia. It is unnecessary further to discuss the condition of the organs in general in the present series of cases, except just to add that acute peritonitis was described three times, marked atheroma of the aorta seven times, and aneurism of the aorta twice. The Nature of Acute Lobar Pneumonia. Acute lobar pneumonia, both from the clinical and the pathological point of view, may be classified as primary and secondary. By primary pneumonia we mean that variety of the disease which begins acutely in the midst of ordinary health and runs the characteristic clinical course. As secondary pneumonia we class those cases in which the pul- monary lesion may be looked upon as the direct result either of some old-standing primary lesion elsewhere or of septic](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b24934276_0021.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
