Cardiovascular and Pulmonary Physiology

¹ The Department of Medicine, The Woman's Medical College, Philadelphia, Pa.

The specific pulmonary infections, notably pneumonia and tuberculosis, have been largely controlled by preventive medicine and chemotherapy. But there has developed in the wake of these medical accomplishments, increasingly, a group of pulmonary diseases such as emphysema, fibrosis, bronchiectasis and chronic pleurisy. These conditions are especially noted in older people, reflecting as they do the occurrence of antecedent disease with aggravation and the influences of degenerative processes of aging tissues. Disturbed cardiopulmonary physiology results in physical disability and calls for timely physiologic testing and dynamic treatment.