An address on pneumonia : delivered at Birmingham, April 24, 1884, before the Birmingham and Midland Counties Branch of the British Medical Association / by J. Burney Yeo.

  • Yeo, I. Burney (Isaac Burney), 1835-1914.
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[1884]
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Credit: An address on pneumonia : delivered at Birmingham, April 24, 1884, before the Birmingham and Midland Counties Branch of the British Medical Association / by J. Burney Yeo. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    through the lungs, and was attended with “ typhoid ” symptoms. Removal from barracks to tents, isolation of affected persons and their attendants, immediately arrested the progress of the disease. The 3rd Punjaub Infantry lost 60 men from a similar outbreak. He believed it was caused by marching through districts known to be affected with bovine pleuro-pneumonia.* But to come nearer home :—A very remarkable series of cases, pointing to direct contagion, have been recorded by Mr. Patchett, of Shaw, near Oldham.-]- A whole family of five persons died, one after the other, in less than a fortnight, of typical and uncomplicated pneumonia. Four brothers and a sister, all unmarried, lived together on a farm, where they had resided all their lives, which was well and healthily situated on a steep hill-side, and was in excellent sanitary condition. There was no. sus- picion of septic influence. The previous health of all the family had been exceptionally good. The first case seen was on January 13, 1876, the eldest brother, aged 73 ; he died on the 16th, after an illness of six days, with pneumonia of the right lung. The day of his death another brother, aged 66, was found also to have right-sided pneumonia, which extended to the left lung, and he died in three days, on the 19th. On the morning of January 20th a third brother, aged 63, who was quite well and at work the day before, was found with signs of pneumonia, at both bases. On the evening of the same day a fourth brother, aged 64, felt shivery and cold on going to bed; the next morning he had double pneumonia, and both died on the evening of the 22nd. The sister, aged 61, who had been in attendance on all the brothers, and appeared to keep up her health * Lancet. Jan. 29th, 1881. f Lancet. February 25, 1882,