CASES OF EMPYEMA AT CAMP LEE, VA.

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This preliminary report has been prepared while the investigation was still in progress and contains only such observations, and deductions therefrom, as appear of immediate clinical importance. Statistical data and laboratory studies must be deferred to a future more detailed report following completion of work still unfinished. This includes serologic, histologic and experimental studies, and observation of cases that are apparently healed, but which experience has shown are still liable to a recurrence of the empyema. Opportunities have not yet arisen to study methods of caring for chronic cavities and sinuses which show no tendency toward a favorable progress. Edward K. Dunham, Chairman. GENERAL RESULTS The commission has had an opportunity to observe at Camp Lee, Va., 140 cases of empyema associated with a hemolytic streptococcus. Of this number ninety-three were patients who had already been operated on and were in various stages of convalescence at the time of our

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