Recenti Progressi in Medicina

Abstract

THE appearance of the first issue (dated October 1946) of Recenti Progressi in Medidna, a monthly review of international medical and surgical literature, published in Rome under the directorship of Giuseppe Lazzaro, supported by some twenty-eight collaborators, is an interesting development of post-war medical activity in Italy. This first issue, which owes much to the advice and experience of Prof. Giuseppe Bastianelli, to whom the editor pays a warm tribute, is mainly devoted to a review of recent progress in our knowledge of the various types of inflammation of the lungs. It deals not only with the types of pneumonia caused by bacteria, but also with in fluenzal pneumonia, coccidiomycosis, Q -fever and psittacosis. An especially long and detailed section, illustrated by X-ray photographs, deals with primary atypical pneumonia. Another article is devoted to the condition known to some as infiltration of Hegglen or pneumonia associated with a positive Wassermann reaction. Treatment of the pneumonias with penicillin and sulphonamides is the subject of another article, and there are abstracts from literature dealing with other aspects of the study of inflammation of the lungs. A short section records two immunological laboratory procedures. A bibliographical section consists entirely of the contents of the British Medical Journal during the months January to April 1946.