Show Advice on Your Health SEdi 1 By Morris Fishbein h Editor Journal our American n M Medical c With the coming of the football season cold chill winds of fall and winter and increased exposure of the body to the atmosphere the pneumonia rate begins to rise Today Today Today To To- day pneumonia is among the most serious of all of the diseases and has certainly become the captain of the men of death among acute infections This phrase commonly credited to William Osler Osier actually was first used by John Bunyan in author of Pilgrims Progress relationship to consumption Pneumonia was known t to ancient ancient ancient an an- physicians and was described as long as 2200 years ago by Greek doctors Our modern knowledge knowledge knowl knowl- edge of the disease however is credited to that famous French physician who invented invent invent- ed the stethoscope the device with which the doctor listens to sounds within the chest It is believed that pneumonia is frequently transmitted from one person to another as are other diseases diseases diseases dis dis- dis- dis eases of the lungs and the breathing breathing breathing breath breath- ing tract but it is known also that the germs of pneumonia may be carried in the mouths noses and throats of healthy persons Wherever Wherever ever people are crowded together the incidence of pneumonia rims definitely I Pneumonia is particularly tinous serious tin seri ous in little children and in Oil people and of course little chu ch I Idren dren and old people are mores more's than are those of mid middle midd age For very old people J monia has been called the friend frien of the aged because those wl wh and ani aw I ere are old escape gradual decay dissolution passing with an ill illness illness ill ness that is sudden short and n not nat often painful Pneumonia is much more com common common mon in the city than in the country coun try simply because of the overcrowding over overcrowding overcrowding crowding that exists in cities Moreover it is much more common com common mon in those who are exposed to cold and to the hardships t f life in people who have their re resistance weakened and in those thosS suffering from a a. chronic disease or who overindulge in alcohol j Whereas many other infectious diseases can attack a person out bu J Jonce once pneumonia may attacK o on on- i repeated occasions Although it mm E Ehas prove proved i has not been definitely that pneumonia is associated wit will cold and with chilling the ex experience j of great numbers of we doe Ii tors almost certainly establishes such a relationship j |