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INFLAMMATIONS. 



These various forms constantly run into one another, so that we 

 seldom see pleurisy without some degree of pneumonia, or the 

 latter without bronchitis. Still one generally predominates over 

 the other, and, as far as treatment is concerned, that one may be 

 considered as distinct. So also there is every shade between the 

 very acute form, the acute, the subacute, the chronic, and the 

 permanently chronic ; but for practical purposes the two divisions 

 are sufficient. 



