Show Pneumonia Is Still Nigh High On Death List Pneumonia pop popularly u I a r I y thought to be an old fashioned is stil deadly Combined Com Com- with influenza pneumonia monia is one of the ten leading lead lead- ing causes of death in this country to Dr Rob Rob- crt Austrian in a leture le- le ture at the University of Utah of Medicine to Dr Aus Aus- trian Irian sine the introduction of and due to the re re- suiting sharp reduction in deaths aused by might have resulted in a more how this kind of bacteria causa caus caus- es a deth has been uld Promising vaccine preparations prepa prepa- rations have also been stopped serious in over 50 yeas of age he id Since this age group is ever increasing the medical researcher told his Utah audience that it would me Inc our to pneumonia ia This could in re re es- es preventive m mea e a for olde who are most to th the disease lis dis ease and continuing to better understand th action of the when thy Invade in In- vade the blood steam IN STUDIES by Dr Austian at the State University Uni Uni- of New York Down Down- sate Medica Center it it was found 60 pe pc cent of the from pneumonia in incur incur cur in the firs five days of Illness During this cub early period the to survival rate I from thus thos who serum or no at of the tie Dr Austrian at the State Un Uni of New York Down I state Medical Cente it was found that 60 00 per cent of th i deaths from pneumonia in penicillin treated patients oc oc- cu in the first live five days of illness During this crucil early the survival at of these varies little those who receive scum or no treatment at all It is in the da days s 's ate afe the first five that peni penicillin makes a difference of a penicillin treated patient the first five dys his chances of recovery ae 90 pr cent Less than 20 per cent of the tin un U If they too survive the first five dys ONE ADVANTAGE of penn pen is that it has rode it possible to study the course of pneumonia In patients who without the would have died These studies are opening the way to new discoveries dis dis- about physical abnormal ab ab- normal ties lead to cornis corn com is or inflammation of the line ing of the heart and its vIves and meningitis or inflammation tion of the brie or spiral spinal ord I |