Pneumonia and Serum Therapy

Pneumonia and Serum Therapy

This is a revised edition of the text of essentially the same title which was published in 1936, and, like it, is basically a handbook presenting the case for serum therapy in pneumonia. It should be noted, however, that the term "revision" does not always mean "reprinted," even though some of the phases of the problem as presented in the earlier edition are herein merely extended by the inclus...

Lobar Pneumonia and Serum Therapy

introduction is obviously hampered by his large knowledge and understanding of Fracastoro. He might give us a far larger book than the present volume on the learned doctor whom he would prefer to present as the passionate poet. But even the bibliographical enthusiast must be grateful for the introduction, if only for the appreciative glimpse of Dr. Osler and his professorial adviser. The work l...

Chemotherapy and Serum Therapy of Pneumonia

Perhaps the most pertinent comment to be made in connection with the publication of this text is the fact that it need be published at all; that knowledge of a disease of such long history should within such a short time expand to the point where biennial publication of a text on its treatment can be justified. With but slight changes in title, but changes which in themselves are significant, t...

Lobar Pneumonia and Serum Therapy: With Special Reference to the Massachusetts Pneumonia Study

The Serum Ferments and Antiferment during Pneumonia

1. The crisis in pneumonia is usually accompanied by (a) decrease in the serum antiferment; (b) the mobilization of a non-specific protease in the serum; (c) an increase in serum lipase; (d) a decrease in the non-coagulable nitrogen, and of the proteoses in the serum. 2. The crisis is associated with the beginning of an active autolysis, the latter depending on an altered relation between the f...