Lung Abscess

Abstract

IT is the purpose of this paper to review the changing clinical picture of lung abscess as seen in one institution. A unique opportunity to do this exists at the Massachusetts General Hospital, where a background of four studies concerning 681 cases is available, covering the period 1909 to 1942.^{1 2 3 4} The last two reports by Sweet^{3 , 4} included the years between 1933 and 1942, which marked, therapeutically, the ascendancy of thoracic surgery and the beginning of the present antibiotic era. Disappointing results after the use of sulfonamides were noted.⁴ This report concerns the period from 1943 to 1956 and reviews the . . .