SYNDROME OF PNEUMOCOCCIC BRONCHIAL OBSTRUCTIONEXPERIMENTAL PRODUCTION OF ATELECTASIS OR LOBAR PNEUMONIA WITH HUMAN PNEUMONIC SPUTUM; SUGGESTION FOR PREVENTIVE AND THERAPEUTIC TREATMENT
POL N. CORYLLOS, M.D.;
GEORGE L. BIRNBAUM, M.D.
Arch Intern Med. 1933;51(2):290-323.
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It is only within relatively recent years that the importance of bronchial obstruction for the production of a wide variety of pulmonary diseases has come to be more generally recognized. True, in frank foreign body obstruction of a bronchus, it has been known that absorption of the air and atelectasis can ensue. Aside from advancing the therapy of this type of obstruction, Chevalier Jackson was the first to recognize atelectasis as a symptom of bronchial obstruction by diphtheritic membranes and to cure so-called diphtheritic pneumonia by bronchoscopic aspiration. William Pasteur in 1890 had noticed the frequent occurrence of atelectasis ("massive collapse") of the lung in diphtheria, but ascribed it etiologically to paralysis of the diaphragm, which he thought could bring about the airless state of the lung. In Pasteur's cases the high diaphragm was the result and not the cause of the condition; for it is well known today that
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Author Affiliations
Professor of Clinical Surgery and Research Associate in Surgery; Research Assistant in Surgery NEW YORK
From the Department of Surgical Research, Cornell University Medical College.
Footnotes
This work was aided by a fund provided by Mrs. John L. Given in support of Surgical Research.
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