eMedicine Bacterial Pneumonia (Health/Respiratory_Disorders)
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Description: Article covering clinical information, diagnosis, and treatment. Includes prescribing... information, pictures and Xrays.Pneumonia, Bacterial Medical practitioners have known of pneumonia since ancient times. Hippocrates indoctrinated his students about peripneumonia, which, for the ancient healers, had a connotation of an acute illness either with pain in the side or with severe dyspnea. The term acquired a more punctilious meaning as the study of morbid anatomy and physical diagnosis progressed over the last few centuries. Morgagni contributed the concept of solidification of the lung. Laennec, the father of pulmonary medicine, described pathological stages
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