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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.

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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.

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