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AN ANALYSIS OF SEVEN HUNDRED AND THIRTY-EIGHT CASES OCCURRING DURING 1942 AT SCOTT FIELD, ILL.

CAPTAIN CHARLES A. OWEN

Arch Intern Med. 1944;73(3):217-231.

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Primary atypical pneumonia as a clinical entity has only recently received prominent attention. It is usually a mild disease, differing widely from the classic lobar and bronchial pneumonias; it is communicable, has a prolonged period of incubation and is prone to occur in military camps, schools and other groups with frequent intimate contacts. It is a nonbacterial disease. It is characterized by insidious onset, coughing and progressive malaise; there is usually a brief febrile period during which the pulse and the respiration are relatively slow and there is a relative or absolute leukopenia, with minimal early signs of pneumonia but with the rales persisting after the roentgenogram appears normal.

There is little evidence that this is a new disease since reports of a similar pneumonia extend back into the nineteenth century. Stansfield,¹ in 1923, discussed the pulmonary involvement in 12 cases of grip. Cole and MacCallum,² summarizing data . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
MEDICAL CORPS, ARMY OF THE UNITED STATES