A treatise on the diseases of infancy and childhood . lobules presents the sameanatomical condition, for the supervention of pneumonia, as occurs incases of hypostatic congestion. Consequently, cell-proliferation soonbegins in the collapsed alveoli, the volume of the affected lung in-creases, and it becomes firmer and more resisting to the touch, and themicroscope reveals the characters of a subacute but genuine catarrhalpneumonitis. I have made or have procured microscopic examinationsof a considerable number of such specimens, and have found the alveolimore or less filled with cells of the e
A treatise on the diseases of infancy and childhood . lobules presents the sameanatomical condition, for the supervention of pneumonia, as occurs incases of hypostatic congestion. Consequently, cell-proliferation soonbegins in the collapsed alveoli, the volume of the affected lung in-creases, and it becomes firmer and more resisting to the touch, and themicroscope reveals the characters of a subacute but genuine catarrhalpneumonitis. I have made or have procured microscopic examinationsof a considerable number of such specimens, and have found the alveolimore or less filled with cells of the epithelial character. (See articleAtelectasis.) In rare instances in infancy and childhood pneumonitis results, as itmore frequently does in the adult, from an embolus detached from aclot, which had formed in some remote vein, in consequence of arrestof circulation in it, by inflammation of the contiguous tissues. Thisis described by writers as a distinct form of pneumonitis, designatedembolic or embolismal. A specimen showing this mode of causation. ANATOMICAL CHARACTERS. 611 was exhibited by me at the New York Pathological Society, in Feb-ruary, 1868. An infant, born January 22, 1868, of strumous parents,had been fretful, but without appreciable ailment till February 3d, wheninflammation of the connective tissue occurred on the anterior aspect ofthe left leg, a little below the extended downward, suppurated, IG* and the pus was evacuated February5th. In the mean time three other sim-ilar inflammations occurred, two on theright foot and leg, and the other over theparietes of the chest in the right infra-mammary region. Suppuration occurredin all of these. On February 8th this infant was sud-denly seized with extreme dyspnoea, anddied in a few hours. Numerous minutepuriform collections (formerly called me-tastatic abscesses) were discovered in each lung, most of them scarcelylarger than a pins head. One of them on the right side in the middlelobe connecting with a bron
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