RT Journal
T1 INsidious pleurisy.
JF Journal of the American Medical Association
JO Journal of the American Medical Association
YR 1899
FD June 24
VO XXXII
IS 25
SP 1451
OP 1452
DO 10.1001/jama.1899.02450520049008
UL http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.1899.02450520049008
AB Time was when it was generally believed by the medical profession that pleurisy was due to cold and exposure, and in most instances it was supposed to be produced by very similar causes to those which were thought to cause pneumonia. With the advances which have been made in our bacteriologic knowledge, we have gradually learned that pneumonia in all its forms is due to an invasion of the lung by a micro-organism and that in its most characteristic form it is due to the micrococcus lanceolatus. Even more recently than the discovery that pneumonia is due to systemic infection and is but a localized manifestation of general disease, we have learned that inflammation of the pleura is due to infection by the staphylococcus, streptococcus and bacillus of tuberculosis, and more rarely to other infecting micro-organisms.These rare forms of pleuritic infection are also very frequently insidious in their onset