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efforts have been made to find a different or a better 

 treatment — in fact, the subject of the treatment of pneu- 

 monia has received fully as much study as any other. 

 I The disease itself is the only answer — it can not ie 

 aborted; it is self-limited. The nature of the tissue 

 which is the seat of pneumonia is such that an inflamma- 

 tion once established within its cells can only terminate 

 by resolution after certain stages (fully understood by 

 all pathologists) have been passed through. All im- 

 provement in the treatment of pneumonia must therefore 

 end, as a matter of course, with such innovations having 

 to do with the prevention of complications and sequelae. 

 Just as soon as the practitioner comes to look at his 

 pneumonia cases from this angle he has only occasional 

 losses. As long as he adheres to heroic treatments, en- 

 deavoring to abort the attacks or to bring them to a rapid 

 termination, he experiences only occasional recoveries of 

 his patients. 



