"SILENT" PNEUMONIA.
The fact that a man can suffer from an ailment known "silent" pneumonia, while at the same time appearing to be in normal health, was revealed at°the inquest in Yorkshire on a colliery overman who collapsed, and died in a cabin on the pit top. A doctor having remarked that early pneumonia was revealed by a post-mortem examination,! a son of the man asked: "Why does he say that my father Lad pneumonia when | lie" never coughed, sneezed or showed any , trouble of any description?" The doctor said that the best answer he could give was to point out that often people dropped dead in the street without showing any symptoms of illness, and that at the post-mortem examination pneumonia of the -o called silent type ware vest led. It was not "lull-blown pneumonia." '
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Auckland Star, Volume LXVII, Issue 149, 25 June 1936, Page 18
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136"SILENT" PNEUMONIA. Auckland Star, Volume LXVII, Issue 149, 25 June 1936, Page 18
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