A Greek physician named Hippocrates is noted for his description of Pneumonia symptoms between 460 B.C. and 370 B.C. Along with his many other contributions, he is known as the father of medicine.
Edwin Klebs discovered the bacteria that causes pneumonia in 1875. Carl Friedlander and Albert Frankel identified two additional strains of bacterial pneumonia in 1882 and 1884.
Pneumonia existed in pre-history.
In 1898 it was discovered in cows, and in 1938 it was found in humans.
Frederick Griffith
Pneumonia is a general term, not a specific disease. There is viral pneumonia, bacterial pneumonia, and a fungal pneumonia, among others.
walking pneumonia
There is no opposite of pneumonia.
Bilateral pneumonia.
This type of pneumonia is also called atypical pneumonia, walking pneumonia, or community-acquired pneumonia
You should say, "I recovered from pneumonia."
CURE FOR PNEUMONIA DISCOVERED BY Dr. Lloyd D. Felton Dr. Felton has found a method of precipitating and concentrating the antibodies in anti-pneumococcus serum. This concentrated solution has been used with encouraging results in about 60 cases at the Boston City Hospital and in about 60 more in hospitals in New York and Brooklyn.
Multifocal pneumonia means that there are patches of pneumonia throughout your lungs as opposed to lobar pneumonia which is contained in one spot.
Progressive pneumonia is a condition in which pneumonia isn't adequately treated, and has relapsed into a heavier pneumonia, which tends to be harder to treat.