A treatise on the pneumonia of children / by Rilliet et Barthez ; translated from the French by S. Parkman.

  • Rilliet, F. (Frédéric), 1814-1861.
Date:
1839
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    mg from the fact of the great number of eruptive fevers in spring and autumn, advances an opinion that lobular pneumonia is more frequent at these seasons. M. Leger makes the same observation ; and Dr. Gerhard assures us that idiopathic pneumonia is the most common in the months of April and May. One of our colleagues, M. Becquerel, having had the kindness to place at our disposition a list of the pneumonias occurring in the service of acute diseases, (girls.) during the months of April, May, and June, we are enabled, in uniting his notes with ours, col- lected at the beginning and end of the year, to give a complete table of all the pneumonias observed in this service during the year 1837. We would observe, however, that circumstances beyond our control having prevented the observation of a few cases, which occurred in the latter end of March, this month will not enter into our table of results. The total of pneumonias in the eleven months is ninety-four, divided as follows: (We have marked not only the number of the pneumonias, but also the relative frequency of the idiopathic and complicated.) Months. Number. Idiopathic. Complicated, January, February, March, 8 18 1 5 7 13 April, May, June, 8 5 7 1 1 1 7 4 6 July, August, September, October, 13 5 5 9 0 0 1 I 13 5 4 8 November, 11 2 9 December, 5 0 5 Total, 94 13 81 Different consequences may be deduced from the foregoing tables. 1. What we already knew ;—the enormous disproportion between the frequency of the idiopathic and complicated pneu- monia; 2. the rarity of idiopathic pneumonia in the warmer months of the year. We may moreover observe, that the number of complicated pneumonias depends upon the prevalence, at the time, of those diseases, upon which they are liable to supervene. Thus if the month of February presents the largest number, we find the cause in the epidemic prevalence of the grippe at that sea- son of this particular year, (1837.) Taking into account the force of the constitution, we have made the remark that nearly all our younger class of patients presented a very delicate complexion, while those from six to fifteen years appeared generally to enjoy a very good constitution.