Etiopathogenesis of Suppurative Diseases of the Lungs

The recognition of the significance of the nervous system in the development of suppurative diseases of the lungs allows us to draw several important practical conclusions in connection with the conservative treatment of pulmonary suppurations. Therapeutic measures must exercise direct influence not only on micro-organisms in the lungs but on the patient's nervous system as well, changing the reactivity of the human organism; just from this point of view the favorable therapeutic effect of blood transfusion during suppurative diseases of the lungs should be valued. The very effect of antibiotics that are widely used in the Soviet Union in the treatment of pulmonary suppurations should be also looked upon and studied not only from the point of view of its effect on the micro-organism but also on the macro-organism. In general all organization of medical assistance should be centered on the patient, creating for him such conditions which would raise his ability to fight the disease, would ease his struggle with it. An early diagnosis, timely hospitalization, dispensary observation after discharge from the hospital assure favorable results in the treatment of this serious illness.