...pneumonia — 30 per cent. One- third of all the people die of diseases of the lungs. Brehnier wrote: " Anything which protects one man from falling ill....properly employed, to cure another of the same disease." This aphorism with all its error is yet true with relation to ventilation :ind tuln-rculosis. What...

...diminished and the muscular power of the heart rendered more vigorous. Brehmer's fundamental idea was, that "anything which protects one man from falling ill must be able, if properly applied, to cure another of the same disease." The chief lines of his treatment were : — A life spent...