Aureomycin in the Treatment of Primary Atypical Pneumonia

Abstract

THE disease generally known as "primary atypical pneumonia" or "viral pneumonia" is now well established as a clinical entity. The fully developed case can usually be recognized by the nature and course of the symptoms, the character of the physical and roentgenographic findings in the lungs, the absence of sustained leukocytosis and the failure to find significant pathogenic bacteria in the blood, sputum or lungs or to obtain clinical cures with the available antibacterial agents. Confirmation of the diagnosis is obtained in a large proportion of cases by the demonstration of cold agglutinins in the patients' blood late in the . . .