Acute lobar pneumonia: with special reference to its treatment

Abstract

Acute Lobar Pneumonia is one of the most important diseases with which we have to deal, on account of the appalling mortality with which it is attended. In his "Clinical Studies”, Bramwell says "There is perhaps no disease which cuts off so many valuable lives as Acute Croupous Pneumonia, killing as it does so many people at the height of their full vigour, activity, and usefulness”,In Great Britain alone, about 1,000 lives per week are terminated by this malady.Although most fatal at the extremes of life, no age escapes its ravages, and many of the apparently most robust fall victims to it.The percentage mortality varies considerably in different epidemics, and under different physicians, but it is usually from 20 - 30$. Out of the huge total of 465,000 cases collected, by E. F. Wells from all sources, 94,826 died, giving a mortality of 20.4$.