The bacteriology of bronchitis

Abstract

The somewhat scanty literature dealing with the bacteriology of bronchitis reveals the fact that quite a number of micro-organisms may be present in the bronchitic secretion, and that an important aetiological relationship has been assigned to many of them.

In the following pages, I propose to deal with his subject, which i s one towards which sufficient attention has not as yet been directed.

The question of the bacteriology of bronchitis, however, is so intimately associated with that of the bacteriology of the normal air passages, that I shall first quote some of the more important writings in regard to the flora of the respiratory passages, then give a short review of the chief literature dealing ore particularly with the bacteriology of bronchitis, and lastly, pass on to the records of my own cases.