Pulmonary Histoplasmosis

Abstract

HISTOPLASMOSIS, a generalized fungous disease that begins in the lungs,¹ is world-wide in distribution, but the main endemic area comprises the Mississippi valley of the United States.² Long and Stearns³ suggested that most persons in the Mississippi valley with pulmonary calcifications seen on x-ray study were negative to tuberculin, and Christie and Peterson⁴ and Palmer⁵ demonstrated their positive reaction to histoplasmin. The observations of Furcolow and Brasher⁶ emphasized the clinical importance of chronic pulmonary histoplasmosis, and the reports of several authors described the dramatic course that the acute pulmonary infection may take.^{7 8 9} It is the purpose of this paper to . . .