OCCURRENCE OF PAROTITIS IN INFLUENZAL PNEUMONIA

Functional effects of influenzal pneumonia.

Parotitis as a Complication of Lobar Pneumonia

To the Editor, The Indian Medical Gazette. Sir,?In your issue for last June, under the above heading, a case of parotitis following pneumonia was recorded. I treated a similar case some months ago. The patient was a young female with lobar pneumonia. She developed a severe double parotitis during the course of the disease and local treatment was of no avail. The glands suppurated on both sides ...

Parotitis as a Complication of Lobar Pneumonia

see a patient suffering from a typical attack of lobar pneumonia with pleurisy. The crisis occurred on the seventh day of illness. The next day?17th Feb., 1927?he noticed a swelling below the left ear, which on examination proved to be the left parotid gland acutely inflamed. The pneumonia had been right-sided, whereas it was the left parotid gland which was affected. Ichthyol with belladonna i...

Fatal diffuse influenzal pneumonia: premortem diagnosis by lung biopsy.

the patient's syncopal attacks, but he had no further episodes after operation. Treatment of malignant cardiac mesothelioma has been unsuccessful in all but two instances. Our patient enjoyed normal activities for more than a year after operation, and Sagerman and co-workers1° have reported complete sterilization of a cardiac sarcoma by radiation therapy. One must conclude that early operation ...

Influenzal Meningitis

OUR attention recently has been attracted by the occurrence in Purdvsburn Fever Hospital of several cases of mneningitis in which the causal organism was the hzinophilits influienzcw. A study of all admissions to Purdysburn Fever Hospital since its opening in November, 1906, shows that the first case (liagnosed as influenzal meningitis was adlmitted inl October, 1929. Another case followe(d in ...