Citations:pneumoniæ

Noun: plural of pneumonia

 * 1845, M. Alquié quoted in The Medico‐Chirurgical Review and Journal of practical Medicine, Samuel Highley; Volume II., page #121:
 * We had frequently to direct your attention to the point, that the pneumoniæ and pleuro‐pneumoniæ of the month of December and first half of January, yielded like enchantment to a bold antiphlogistic treatment, while those of February and March resisted it, and exacted, with greater reserve in blood‐letting, the intervention of a different order of mean. And nevertheless the patients of Feb. and March were affect with pneumoniæ like those of Dec. and Jan. : but these affections differed from each other in that something which constitutes their proper nature, and their hundred different shades and varieties.
 * 1855, Carl Rokitansky and William Edward Swaine, The Sydenham Society, Volume I., Chapter IX., page #136:
 * Almost all the pneumoniæ, except those ending in slow resorption or induration of their product, belong to this class, and pre‐eminently those in which the lung becomes enormously distended with a very copious, rapidly deliquescent yellow effusion, the stage of red hepatisation being in Hodgkin’s opinion, here altogether wanting.
 * 1891, Henry Koplik, The Etiology of Empyema in Children, page #11:
 * 1. Medium‐sized, white rabbit, injected in pleural cavity, with a pure culture in bouillon of the diplococcus pneumoniæ ; died in eighteen hours.

Noun: genitive form of pneumonia

 * 1893, The Soil in Relation to Health, Macmillan and Co.; Chapter II., page #48:
 * The bacillus pneumoniæ is possibly the true bacillus and the cause of epidemic pneumonia.