Excerpt from Medical Record, Vol. 71: A Weekly Journal of Medicine and Surgery; January 5, 1907-June 29, 1907 Case IX. - While the following appended case of pneumonia did not occur in the neighborhood of Messer, it may have some bearing upon the ques tion of susceptibility of certain families in their relation to pneumonia. The patient was the son of the patient in Case VIII., the nephew of Cases No. IV. And VI., and a cousin of Case V. Or in other words, of this series of nine cases of pneu monia, four occurred in one family. This patient's aunt and cousin had died of pneumonia during this epidemic of grippe. The patient was a boy, aged three years, who lived with his father, twelve miles distant from Messer. The child had not been away from home. And had not been exposed to any case of croupous pneumonia. For a few days previous to March 29 he had suffered from a cough and cold. The patient lived in the same room with his father, who developed pneumonia on March 28. The patient developed croupous pneumonia on the fol lowing day, or one dav later than the father. The lower lobe of the right lung was consolidated, and recovery occurred at the end of two or three weeks. 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.