Medical Record, Vol. 51

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Excerpt from Medical Record, Vol. 51: A Weekly Journal of Medicine and Surgery, January 2, 1897-June 26, 1897But this protection is not absolute at the best, and is liable to be impaired by any cause that affects the bronchial mucous membrane. Thus the efficiency of the Ciliary movement is lessened during the early dry stage of a common cold and in bronchial catarrh. But in any case there is no difficulty in admitting that micrococci existing in the upper air passages may, under favoring conditions, find a way open to the alve oli through the respiratory passages. This being so, and the pneumococcus being widely disseminated in the mouths of healthy persons and presumably in dried sputa outside the body, the access of such organisms to the air cells through the respiratory passages is a condition of infection which may be supplied at any moment.As a corroborative of this view of the mode of ac cess of the infecting germ, it is interesting to observe that as in two-thirds of the cases foreign bodies pass ing down the trachea find their way into the right bronchus, owing to its greater width, so we find in practice a very considerable preponderance of right sided pneumonias, the result probably of the same anatomical condition by which germs on reaching the bifurcation in their passage downward are in¿uenced to pass into the right bronchus rather than the left.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.