| Popis: |
During the period from Sept. 13 to Oct. 8, 1918, inclusive, there were admitted to the base hospital 2,487 cases of influenza, and 416 cases of pneumonia developed, practically all from the influenza cases. The pneumonia has differed in character so widely from the types reported elsewhere that a record seems to be advisable. Clinically, the disease was lobar pneumonia in all but fifty cases. Generally on the second to the fourth day of the influenza the temperature rose, usually, to about 104, occasionally with a distinct chill. Flatness over one lower lobe, often over both, was found at the first examination. In about half the cases suppressed respiration was noted, but crepitant râles could be elicited in nearly all cases and sharp bronchophony in a considerable number, even from the time of the first examination. Of the whole number of cases, in only four did the disease begin in |
