Excerpt from The Carolina Medical Journal, 1906, Vol. 54 Death usually takes place in pneu monia as a result of heart failure, caused either by the action of the spe crc toxins, or by gradual distention of the ventricles from inability of the circulation to go on in the consolidated lung. The mortality in patients above 60 is from 50 to 80 per cent.' A Mexi can physician, of my acquaintance, told me that when one is attacked by pneumonia In the mountains of Mex ico, unless he is hurried down t0 Degreesthe plains at once he will certainly die. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.