Aspiration pneumonia historical perspective

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Editor-In-Chief: C. Michael Gibson, M.S., M.D. [1]; Associate Editor(s)-in-Chief:

Overview

Literature on aspiration pneumonia came in to knowledge of medical society along with discovery of pneumonia. Major break through came when x-ray was invented by Roentgen in 1896 .

Historical Perspective

Following are important land mark events that shows how aspiration pneumonia became an important entity of critical care:

Year Events
460 BC–380 BC Hippocrates described pnumonia
1138–1204 AD Maimonides wrote about pneumonia as "The basic symptoms which occur in pneumonia and which are never lacking are as follows: acute fever, sticking pleuritic pain in the side, short rapid breaths, serrated pulse and cough."
1875 Bacteria was first seen in the airways of individuals who died from pneumonia by Edwin Klebs
1848 worked on identifying the two common bacterial causes Streptococcus pneumoniae and Klebsiella pneumoniae was performed by Carl Friedländer
1893 Veillon was first to write about role of anaerobic bacteria in aspiration pneumonia
1896 Roentgen describes X-rays.
1918 Sir William Osler, known as "the father of modern medicine," appreciated the morbidity and mortality of pneumonia, describing it as the "captain of the men of death" 
1927 Smith was first to clearly show anaerobic bacterial growth in animal models suffered aspiration pneumonia
1929 Drinker and Shaw announce the invention of the iron lung during the
   polio epidemic
1946 Fenn and coworkers publish work on pulmonary gas exchange
1950 Steroid used for asthma
1970's Plethora was discovered with introduction of using clindamycin in it's treatment
1985 Specimen collected from patients of aspiration pneumonia were vastly cultured and it was called anaerobic bandwagon

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