Studies of Pneumonia in Childhood: V. Empyema
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Studies of Pneumonia in Childhood
Introduction.-In a series of papers the subject of pneumonia in childhood will be presented mainly from the standpoint of morbid' anatomy and histology, but with reference also to its clinical aspects. Bacteriology will not be dealt with. In the first place, it will be an advantage to obtain a general view of the subject by means of a statistical analysis of a large series of cases, and the pre...
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عنوان ژورنال: Archives of Disease in Childhood
سال: 1929
ISSN: 0003-9888,1468-2044
DOI: 10.1136/adc.4.23.270