The Pneumonias

This is the second recent presentation which classifies etiologically acute inflammations of the lungs or pneumonias and presents them as individual diseases. The pathologic histology of the various pneumonias is expounded most acceptably and beautifully illustrated. To avoid any anatomic implications, Dr. Reimann discusses the pneumonias in part I A, on pneumococcic lobar pneumonia, and I B, on atypical pneumonia, giving as synonyms bronchopneumonia, lobular and catarrhal and diffuse pneumonia and pneumonitis. Part II is devoted to pneumonia as a specific form occurring as part of a systemic disease. Part III discusses pneumonias secondary to acute and chronic disease, mechanical shock, senility and so on caused by mixed infection. Strict adherence to the author's classification leads to some reduplication, such as presentation of influenzal pneumonia and tuberculous pneumonia in two separated sections and also to such a cryptic statement as one on page 325: "In the usual form in nonspecific