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ANALYSIS OF DEATHS IN CASES IN WHICH SERUM TREATMENT WAS USED

MILTON BENJAMIN ROSENBLÜTH, M.D.; MORRIS BLOCK, M.D.

Arch Intern Med. 1936;58(1):102-116.

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It has been proved that specific serum definitely reduces the mortality in pneumonia due to type I pneumococcus. This fact has been amply demonstrated by several careful studies¹ on large series of subjects, which, if taken together, total many thousands of patients treated with serum and a comparable number of controls. However, it is disconcerting that in the very reports which are submitted to prove the value of the treatment it is stated that a not inconsiderable number of patients treated with serum succumb in spite of its use. In the series studied by Park and his associates^1a from the Bellevue, Harlem and New York hospitals, there was a mortality of 19 per cent in the cases in which serum treatment was used, and in the series reported by Cecil and Plummer^1b there was a mortality of 20.1 per cent.

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Author Affiliations
Visiting Physician, Bellevue Hospital; Assistant Visiting Physician, Bellevue Hospital; NEW YORK

From the Department of Medicine, New York University College of Medicine, and the Medical Service of the Third (New York University) Medical Division, Bellevue Hospital.

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