(1) Tables are shown which record the course of bacteriaemia investigated by frequent blood-cultures in a series of cases of pneumonia.(2) The proportion of cases having a bacteriaemia in the course of the disease agrees fairly closely with other findings both in this country and in America.(3) Attention is drawn to the frequency with which the organisms disappear from the blood in the absence of any specific treatment, and to the frequency of recovery of bacteriaemic cases.
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