BACTERIOLOGY IN A NUTSHELL. 



Why Named 

 for Pneumonia. 



Predisposing 

 Influences. 



Entrance and 

 Excretion. 



Importance of 

 Nursing. 



Immediate 

 Causes of 

 Death. 



took its name from that disease. As was men- 

 tioned in Chapter I, broncho-pneumonia is 

 often caused by other germs, but authorities are 

 of the opinion that in genuine, acute, lobar 

 pneumonia the diplococcus pneumonia is 

 always present. The germ is a very common 

 one. It is found in the dust and sweepings of 

 rooms and is frequently present in the mouths 

 of the healthy. Exposure to severe weather or 

 dampness which has produced a heavy cold 

 acts as a predisposing cause. The system is 

 invaded, resistive power weakened, and an at- 

 tack of pneumonia follows. The germs enter 

 the lungs through the respiratory tract often 

 causing disastrous changes in these organs. 

 The poison is eliminated from the system 

 through the secretions from the seat of the 

 disease, usually the sputum, which should be 

 disinfected or burned as in tuberculosis. 



Pneumonia has been called the "Captain of 

 the Men of Death," because it carries off annu- 

 ally more victims than any other disease. In 

 few other forms of illness is such constant care 

 and watchfulness on the part of the nurse de- 

 manded as in pneumonia. The disease usually 

 ends by crisis, when collapse or great prostra- 

 tion of all the vital forces may occur. Or the 

 patient may die during the course of a severe 

 form of the disease from suffocation or heart 

 failure. Such patients must not be left alone 

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